Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, including step count, calories burned, sleep quality, Vo2 max and heart rate. As a ...

This American Heart Month, cardiologist Dr. Nidal Ganim explains how smartwatches and rings can track your heart health and ...

A team of obstetricians, gynecologists and data analysts from West Virginia University School of Medicine and the West Virginia University School of Public Health, working with colleagues from WHOOP ...

Heart rate variability can reveal how well runners are recovering – here, a cardiologist explains how to use HRV without ...

You might be familiar with HRV—heart rate variability—as a popular training tool for workouts and a biomarker for measuring exercise recovery. Beyond exercise tracking, heart rate variability has a ...

When one partner is stressed, the other feels it too—not just emotionally, but on a biological level. New research on heart rate synchronization helps explain how.

Personalizing overnight fasting by stopping food intake three hours before sleep improves blood pressure and blood sugar control without calorie counting.

Why the wild freakish heart rate and HRV scores Van der Poel discussed in a recent podcast mean everything and nothing, all at once.

Menopause causes a drop in estrogen, which can lead to changes in heart rate, such as palpitations or fluctuations in heart rhythm. Menopause marks a significant transition in a person’s life, ...