For decades, it was impossible for clinicians to know which babies with major heart defects might eventually have ...

(CNN) - Across the globe, high blood pressure in children has nearly doubled over the past two decades. A new study found ...

YORK, Pa. — February is American Heart Month, and it's important to remember that heart disease can affect kids at any age. Dr. Vinitha Moopen from Wellspan sits down with FOX43 to discuss some of the ...

Guidelines disagree on whether children should be screened to identify familial hypercholesterolemia, which is associated ...

Doctors say kids who have hypertension, or high blood pressure, are at a greater risk of developing heart disease later in ...

The hospital has continued to see growth in scans at multiple locations – meaning it is holistically seeing more patients who ...

Treatment with the direct factor Xa inhibitor edoxaban (Lixiana) resulted in low rates of clinically relevant bleeding and thromboembolism (TE) compared with standard-of-care (SOC) anticoagulants in ...

Hypertension in childhood increases risk for heart disease later on. Now, a new study shows that high blood pressure in children is on the rise.

In the United States, 1 in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels ...

As a cardiologist who has treated heart attacks for more than 20 years, I’ve seen how eating habits formed in childhood can often lay the groundwork for chronic illness in adulthood. My wife and I ...

For years, body mass index (BMI) has been the standard tool for assessing obesity and cardiovascular risk. But new research ...