A new and more accurate method of assessing people at risk from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is set to improve national diagnosis rates and identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups.

Maintaining healthy eating and habits not only benefit your digestion and weight, but also reduce the risk of heart disease and heart attack which came to public attention recently taking two notrious men: Tim Russert and Carlin.

Even if you eat right and exercise regularly, chances are high that you'll still die of a heart attack or stroke. But thanks to new findings by researchers from Harvard and Baylor, the odds may finally shift in your favor.

Researchers have long suspected that socioeconomic factors like education level and income also might affect survival rates following heart attack. In the June issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic researchers present new data suggesting that people with lower incomes and education levels are more likely to die after heart attack than more affluent, educated people.

TV newsman Tim Russert died Friday of what his doctor has said was a coronary thrombosis (it was originally reported as a coronary embolism). What is a coronary thrombosis and does it present a risk to Tim Russert's generation?

MSNBC reports that today heart attack claimed the life of the veteran reporter Tim Russert, who died at age 58 after collapsing. Tim Russert was the moderator of Meet The Press since 1991. Tom Brokow called him his "friend" and said that Tim had just returned from a family trip to Italy and his son just graduated from Boston College. He collapsed at work. Tom says Tim loved his family, his faith and his country.

Low levels of vitamin D appear to be associated with higher risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) in men, according to a report in the June 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

A clinical study on patients who have suffered a heart attack found that a partially purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, Xuezhikang (XZK), reduced the risk of repeat heart attacks by 45%, revascularization (bypass surgery/angioplasty), cardiovascular mortality and total mortality by one-third and cancer mortality by two-thirds.

Young adults who abuse amphetamines may be at greater risk of suffering a heart attack, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

Walk into any emergency department complaining of chest pain and you are likely to have blood drawn. Within hours it should be clear whether you've had a heart attack, based on enzyme levels in your blood and whether those levels reveal the tissue damage normally associated with a heart attack or other major cardiac event.

So much for taking a relaxing family vacation. Actor Kelsey Grammer has suffered a mild heart attack while with his family at their home in Hawaii.

A significant number of patients who suffer a heart attack never have any warning signs. For many of these individuals, the source of the problem is noncalcified plaque, a buildup of soft deposits embedded deep within the walls of the heart’s arteries, undetectable by angiography or cardiac stress tests – and prone to rupture without warning.