Virtual women’s heart health company Systole raised a $2 million pre-seed round, led by Benchstrength. January Ventures, J Ventures and Tom X. Lee, founder of One Medical, also contributed to the ...

Diastole and systole refer to when the heart muscles relax and contract. The balance between diastolic and systolic pressure determines a person’s blood pressure. A blood pressure reading displays ...

Heart disease is the number one cause of death for women in the U.S., but women with cardiovascular risk factors often don’t get the treatment they need until it’s too late. In response to emailed ...

End-diastolic volume is the amount of blood that is in the ventricles before the heart contracts. Doctors use end-diastolic volume to estimate the heart’s preload volume and to calculate stroke volume ...

Heart sounds are produced from a specific cardiac event such as closure of a valve or tensing of a chordae tendineae. Many pathologic cardiac conditions can be diagnosed by auscultation of the heart ...

The aortic valve allows blood to leave the heart and travel through the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body. Aortic stenosis is when this heart valve narrows and doesn’t open fully. The ...

The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition. We consider the brain the very center of who we are and what we do: ruler of our senses, master of ...

Our brain continuously receives signals from the body and the environment. The process by which we identify signals from the body, such as "I am hungry," "I have a painful knee," is referred to as ...

There are a few common extra heart sounds that the clinician may encounter. These include ejection sounds that occur with pulmonic or AS heard in early systole, “clicks” that are heard in mitral or ...