Pericardial fat around the heart can significantly increase your risk of heart failure. You might have it even if you don't have obesity, study finds.

Pericardial fat is associated with a heightened risk for heart failure, particularly in women, new research suggests. In a prospective cohort study of nearly 7000 individuals, excess pericardial fat ...

Mount Sinai research released today shows a possible link between excess pericardial fat and greater risk of heart failure, with implications for early intervention and prevention of heart disease.

Study shows risk doubles in women and goes up by 50 percent in men. Having excess pericardial fat -- fat around the heart -- increases the risk of developing heart failure, especially in women, ...

Dressler’s syndrome is a rare but treatable type of inflammation in the sac surrounding the heart. It develops shortly after a heart injury, such as a heart attack, and may return after treatment. The ...

A month after halting dosing in two of the three treatment arms of a phase 2 trial of its pulmonary arterial hypertension drug, Keros Therapeutics has now pulled the plug on the study entirely. The ...

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare disorder that occurs when the thin sac that surrounds and protects the heart becomes stiff and thick, limiting the heart’s ability to pump blood. Symptoms may ...

Evangelical leader Franklin Graham has had surgery for a hardened heart. The notoriously anti-LGBTQ Christian preacher revealed in a statement Tuesday that he had undergone successful surgery for ...