The heart is the central organ of the human circulatory system. Both congenital and acquired structural changes in the heart can lead to hemodynamic alterations affecting the function of various ...

Decades after blood pressure-related pregnancy complications, women can have changes in heart structure and function Findings highlight importance of early monitoring and management of ...

Our research challenges the assumption that heart structure is uniform across mammals. Instead, subtle but crucial differences in heart anatomy and function have emerged in response to unique ...

Researchers have examined the early stages of heart development, showing how complex meshes of muscle grow to form a complex 3D pump structure.

Adult Latinos who followed a heart-healthy diet had better heart function, according to ultrasound images that found the heart was pumping blood more efficiently through the heart’s chambers. In ...

Mild Covid-19 infection is very unlikely to cause lasting damage to the structure or function of the heart, according to a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers and funded by ...

People with excess adiposity in young adulthood were more likely to have adverse cardiac structure and function later in life compared with people without it, researchers reported in the European ...

This study therefore explored whether smoking was related to changes in the structure and function of the heart in people without cardiovascular disease, and the effect of changing smoking habits.

Participants who stayed in a higher aircraft noise area, the researchers found, had about 10–20% worse heart structure and function than their counterparts who moved away.