by Nicholas Tullo, MD | Feb 13, 2019 | Heart Health
Your resting heart rate can be one of the many indicators of your cardiovascular health, but it is also one that you can influence through lifestyle changes and exercise. How to lower your resting heart rate will vary from one individual to another, but there are some...
by Nicholas Tullo, MD | Feb 12, 2019 | Heart Disease
Millions of people suffer from high blood pressure. Many people don’t know they have high blood pressure or don't treat it because it presents very few physical symptoms. People without the benefit of regular healthcare rarely realize they have high blood pressure due...
by Nicholas Tullo, MD | Jan 8, 2019 | Heart Disease
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) affects nearly 500,000 people in the United States every year. SCD occurs most often in people with significant heart disease, such as congestive heart failure or coronary artery disease after a heart attack. However, on rare but upsetting...
by Nicholas Tullo, MD | Jan 3, 2019 | Heart Health
We learn that our heart is a muscle early in our education, but because we can’t see it, we don’t always treat it that way.While we might go to the gym to work muscles in your arms, legs, or back, we often neglect our hearts. Our hearts continue to work regardless,...
by Nicholas Tullo, MD | Jan 1, 2019 | Heart Health
Advances in echocardiography identified a new yet old problem: diastolic dysfunction. Diastolic dysfunction may lead to diastolic heart failure and further complications. Diastolic dysfunction and heart failure are most common in older women. Often, those women don’t...
