5 Common Causes of Shortness of Breath
Many different situations can make you feel like you can’t get enough air into your lungs, even things like low-level anxiety or speaking in front of a crowd. Almost …
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Understanding Your Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis
Atrial fibrillation is often called AFib, and it’s a growing concern. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that more than 12 million people in the United States will …
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Leg Pain and Swelling
If you take a walk and have an ache in your calf, you might not think anything is out of the ordinary, especially if you don’t walk regularly. It’s …
What Causes Heart Disease?
According to the CDC, heart disease is the leading cause of death in adults in the United States, regardless of sex, race, or ethnicity. The exceptions are women from the …
7 Steps You Can Take for Heart Health
At Maryland Cardiology Associates in Greenbelt, Maryland, our experts are concerned about your heart. We want you to live an active, healthy lifestyle that keeps your heart functioning as well as possible for …
Palpitations: What to Do When Your Heart Skips a Beat
When you do strenuous exercise, you probably have heart palpitations. Have you ever woken suddenly from a nightmare, with your heart racing? That was a heart palpitation. The feeling …
Is Stress Causing Your High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) is often called the “silent killer” because it doesn’t produce any signs or symptoms. You may not even know you have high …
Do I Have High Blood Pressure?
A favorite pastime for many is looking up physical symptoms online to figure out if the internet can provide more insight than your physician. This is one of the …
What is Bad Cholestrol?
Growing up, you may have only heard about cholesterol in passing. Maybe you heard someone on the radio explain how you need to keep it low, or the businessman …
How to Prevent a Heart Attack
Ever heard of the expression “young and bulletproof”? As young people, we once believed that we were invincible, that no matter what we did to our bodies or what …