This heart anatomy diagram shows that blood flows from ... How long can you live with 20% heart function? One measurement of how much blood your heart pumps out per beat is the ejection fraction ...

At first, the heart muscle thickens as a protective response. This process, known as cardiac hypertrophy, might seem harmless ...

Anatomy of the Heart Your heart is made up of several chambers, valves, layers, and arteries (blood vessels) to help it function properly. These features of the heart aid in proper blood flow ...

When the workload on the heart increases, the ventricular wall may thicken too, known as cardiac hypertrophy. This is an ...

Our research challenges the assumption that heart structure is uniform across mammals. Instead, subtle but crucial ...

Residents living near noisy airports had 10% to 20% worse heart structure and function, compared to people who moved to get away from the aircraft noise, according to results published Jan. 8 in ...

This analysis followed more than 1,900 young adults who filled out smoking questionnaires at ages 10, 13, 15, 17 and 24, and underwent tests to measure heart structure and function at ages 17 and 24.

Our previous research has suggested that the structure of the human heart may be different to that of the chimpanzee. Using cardiac ultrasound, we discovered that the left ventricle—the heart's ...