Thanks to a collaboration between Columbia and Cornell doctors, Yasin Samad is one of the first children in the United States to receive an innovative artificial heart valve.
The rising complexity of heart disease requires new ways to treat it, including those that combine surgical and catheter-based approaches in the same patient.
Ever since Type A personality was linked to cardiovascular disease in the 1950s, it’s been known that anger raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. Now a Columbia study may explain how.
A new study from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian provides physicians with valuable information on how the heart adapts to intense physical training in elite female athletes in the WNBA.
This July, Columbia neurologist Mitch Elkind will become president of the American Heart Association, only the second time a neurologist has led the organization.
Patients taking the recommended diuretic for hypertension experienced more potentially serious side effects than those taking a similar drug, according to a new study from Columbia researchers.
A 2018 study found that children from poor neighborhoods fare worse after heart surgery compared with kids from wealthier areas. Now Columbia researchers are trying to understand why.
Cardiovascular disease continues to be misdiagnosed and undertreated in women. “The key is education, for doctors and patients," says Columbia cardiologist Jennifer Haythe, MD.
A new study estimates that more than 2 million Americans with heart disease have used marijuana, but the cardiovascular effects of the drug are not fully understood.
Social support may help offset the negative impact that discrimination and gender expectations have on heart disease and stroke risk factors among transgender and gender non-conforming adults.