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When a ‘Normal’ Resting Heart Rate Might Actually Be Signaling Trouble
Paying attention to your normal may be more helpful, new research suggests.
What is considered a normal resting heart rate?
Your resting heart rate is a big indicator of how healthy you are -- learn what normal looks like for you.
Doctors Explain What Your Resting Heart Rate Should Be and Why It Matters
For most people, the resting heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Generally speaking, the lower your resting heart rate, the better.
Ask Anytime: Why Resting Heart Rate Matters
Understand what your resting heart rate actually is, and indicates, before using these three strategies to work toward the healthiest rate possible.
How to Lower Your Resting Heart Rate's Beats Per Minute
While your heart rate varies depending on your activity, keeping your heart rate within a healthy range may increase your life span. Resting heart rate seems to be a common denominator for various types of heart disease, so lowering your heart rate to the recommended range may decrease your risk of developing heart disease. Many factors affect...
What Your Resting Heart Rate Says About You
Your resting heart rate can tell you a lot about your cardiovascular health, and while some of what it says may seem scary, there are ways to make it better.
What Your Resting Heart Rate Tells You About Your Health
Is My Heart Rate Normal?
Q&A With Dr. Manny: What is a normal heart rate?
What Is a Normal Heart Rate Range?
Your resting heart rate can tell you much about your overall health. Learn more about normal heart rate ranges and how your heart rate impacts your wellbeing.
Quick Lessons: How to assess a patient's heart rate
Jennifer Kowalkowski, Department Chair at Herzing University - Madison, teaches us how to assess a patient's heart rate.
What should my heart rate be and why?
Knowing your heart rate isn't as simple as you'd think—but it's a crucial indicator of health.
What Am I Supposed to Do With My Smartwatch's Heart Rate Data?
Why you’ve never really been able to figure it out, according to a cardiologist.
How my Apple Watch's heart rate monitoring saved my life
Chuck La Tournous has a scary story with a happy ending. Whew.
White Coat Syndrome: How To Manage Increased Heart Rate At The Doctor's
Does your blood pressure climb when you visit the doctor? Discover what white coat syndrome is, and how to handle it.
Can we trust heart rate monitors?
If you’re dark skinned, your heart rate monitors may not be accurate. But should you worry about it?
Heart Rate Variability: A New Measure of Health
Heart rate variability has been measured for quite some time. However, until recently, it hasn’t been highly publicized or turned “mainstream.”
Bradycardia (slow heart rate): Symptoms and when to see a doctor
There are many symptoms of bradycardia, including confusion, shortness of breath, and a slow pulse. However, bradycardia is not always serious and does not always require treatment. Learn more about the signs of bradycardia, and when to see a doctor here.
The Downside of Low Heart Rate: Athletes Who Get Blood Clots
DVT in endurance athletes sounds unlikely, but certain lifestyle factors may put them at risk for the dangerous blood clot disorder.
