Many parents know that their own pulse or heart rate should be within about 60 to 100 beats per minute. Your child, however, may have a higher pulse rate, depending on their age. Because heart rate ...

The heart beats around 100,000 times a day, yet most people rarely think about how fast, or how efficiently it’s working, ...

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The heart rate is the number of times your heart beats in a minute. At every beat, your heart pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood around the body. Interestingly, your heart rate can increase due to ...

Monitoring pulse rate is essential for understanding both physical and mental health. Normal resting heart rates range from 55 to 85 beats per minute, with well-trained athletes potentially having ...

In this era of fitness trackers, we have easy access to our heart rate at any given moment. Every so often, a number catches your eye as it flashes on your Garmin or Apple Watch while you're sitting ...

What we physicians tell patients should be based on evidence, but that doesn’t always happen. A good example is when patients ask what their pulse rate should be and we tell patients between 60 and ...

If you’ve ever bolted awake from a nightmare with your heart beating like a frenzied drum, you already know that sleep and rest are not the same. Which is why it should make sense that neither are ...