Your pulse and blood pressure work together as vital indicators of heart health, though they measure different things. While blood pressure shows how forcefully blood pushes against artery walls, your ...

Another myth is that only older adults should regularly monitor their pulses because they're at higher risk for heart ...

Your pulse is like having a direct line to your heart’s control room, constantly broadcasting information about your cardiovascular health that most people never bother to decode. While everyone knows ...

What we physicians tell patients should be based on evidence, but that doesn’t always happen. A good example is when patients ask what their pulse rate should be and we tell patients between 60 and ...

This simple circuit enables you to listen to your heartbeat, for instance, while you are exercising. The transducer used for detecting the pulse is an electret microphone, X1 in the diagram. The model ...