The goal is to walk with a lower heart rate, which shows that your body “can adapt to low responses of stress as well as potentially high responsive stress,” Yu says. But if your heart rate is ...

As Ottawa and the surrounding region emerges from an extended summer heat wave, heart researchers say all that sultry weather can cause cardiovascular damage you might not be aware of.

Heart rates sustained between 50 to 70 per cent of your age-predicted MHR are considered moderate intensity. Seventy to 85 per cent of MHR is a vigorous workout.

When Joan Fair purchased a Garmin runner's watch to help her get back in shape after contracting contracting COVID-19, she had no idea it would save her life. During one sleepless night, the ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) measures the fluctuations in time between heartbeats. [1] While it isn’t a health metric you need to overthink, HRV is an indicator of how well the body can adapt to ...

Pacemakers today are designed to have a function called rate response of pacing. As background, the older varieties of pacemakers were simply designed to recognize when the heart rate got too slow ...

Heart rate can also be lowered with the help of medication, says Nicole Weinberg, M.D., board-certified cardiologist at Providence Saint John’s Health Center. “Aside from cardiac-specific medications, ...