Angina is a specific type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart, often due to conditions like coronary artery disease. It typically feels like pressure, tightness, heaviness, or a ...

A type of cardiovascular disease known to physicians as microvascular angina affects the heart’s tiniest arteries and causes chest pain. The disease is sneaky, in that it doesn’t show up on ...

That feeling of crushing pain in your chest can be a medical emergency, but it can also be angina pectoris, or "stable angina"—a symptom of coronary heart disease that can be managed with medication.

Exercise doesn't just make the heart stronger. It also rewires the nerves that regulate it, a discovery that could pave the ...

Some patients with chest pain from reduced blood flow to the heart may benefit from having a stent implanted, instead of chest pain medications. These are the findings of a study, led by researchers ...

The recent bitter cold was hard on us all, but for some with existing cardiovascular problems, the cold weather can trigger chest pain. It may be a heart attack. Maybe angina (an JY nuh) or AN juh NUH ...

Unstable angina, or acute coronary syndrome, is a type of chest pain or discomfort that typically occurs when a person is resting. Unstable angina is a medical emergency, and people should seek ...

Chest pain is often linked with heart problems, so it can be frightening when it happens. However, not all chest pain is caused by heart disease. Anxiety is one of the most common non-heart-related ...

Many health conditions can cause chest pain. Healthcare professionals may use the term nonanginal chest pain to refer to chest pain in people without heart disease. Chest pain accounts for more than 6 ...

Ranolazine (Ranexa, Gilead) is an effective anti-anginal therapy in patients with refractory angina; however, at one year only 59 percent of patients remained on the drug, according to a scientific ...

Chest pain isn’t on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) official list of COVID-19 symptoms, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a marker of the respiratory illness, especially because ...