In general, faster recovery rates indicate better health conditions for your heart. The balance of your nervous system ...

Target heart rate: This is the ideal heart rate to get cardiovascular benefits during exercise. It’s calculated as 50% to 85% of your max heart rate, or about 128-170 beats per minute, depending ...

While heart rate variability (HRV) is a widely used measure of autonomic function, the standard 5-minute recording can be cumbersome for patients with cognitive and physical impairments.

A new computational method developed by physicists can be used to estimate the risk of sudden cardiac death from a one-minute heart rate measurement at rest. The study was carried out in ...