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There’s no way to discuss the benefits of getting your blood pressure numbers within healthy ranges without understanding the alternative, which is serious. High blood pressure affects nearly half the adult population in the United States — and it’s also a condition that contributed to nearly 700,000 deaths in 2021 alone....

Heart palpitations can be associated with everything from drinking a cup of coffee to a heart attack. So, determining whether heart palpitations are a cause for concern can be tricky, to say the least. Given our area of expertise — cardiovascular health — the team here South Shore Cardiovascular Associates...

Many people assume that serious and life-threatening events like heart attacks simply strike without warning. The signs were often there all along, but they just weren’t discovered. As heart health experts, our team’s primary goal for patients of South Shore Cardiovascular Associates is to stay one step ahead of heart...

If you’ve been diagnosed with an arrhythmia, this means that your heart beats too quickly or erratically. Up to 5% of the general population has an irregular heartbeat, and the severity of the condition can range from minor to needing intervention. If your arrhythmia can benefit from intervention, a cardioversion may be...

We want to start this blog with two important statistics about heart health in the United States. First, nearly half of adults in our country — about 48% — have cardiovascular disease. Second, about 80% of cardiovascular disease is preventable. Our heart health experts here at South Shore Cardiovascular Associates...

You run up a few flights of steps and you’re gasping for air when you get to the top. This is a perfectly normal circumstance in which you can experience shortness of breath. But what if you feel this shortness of breath if you just walk from one room to...

We’re going to start off by answering the question we posed in the title: Yes, you can have high blood pressure and not know it. In fact, high blood pressure, or hypertension, is often referred to as a silent killer, because there are rarely signs of the disease until a...

You’ve been told that your heart isn’t keeping a steady rhythm, and that the best way to remedy the problem is with a pacemaker. Up to three million people in the United States are living with a pacemaker, and most have found that, while there are some adjustments to make,...

Your heart functions at a wide range of speeds, slowly when you’re resting and faster during exercise or excitement. When your pulse quickens as you’re sitting still, though, it can be a strange experience. It’s called arrhythmia, and it can be fairly common. In many cases, it’s a harmless event. ...