The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium. Blood flows through the left atrium into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the oxygen-rich ...

The simplest way of checking heart rate is to measure your pulse. As the heart beats, a pulse can be felt in locations where an artery passes over a solid structure, such as bone. Locations ...

Hemodynamic digital twins are virtual representations of the way blood flows through the body. They have already been proposed to predict cardiovascular disease risk, but collecting measurements ...

Renovascular disease (RVD) is an umbrella term for conditions that affect the way your blood flows through your kidneys ... Left untreated, kidney failure, heart disease, and stroke are all ...

According to experts, anything that gets in the way of blood flow ... get through, especially when trying to reach the parts of your body that are the longest distance away from your heart ...

All of these temporarily raise heart rate and blood pressure. Smoking also constricts blood vessels in the short term, altering the way blood flows through the body. Keep calm. Ideally ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...