Cardiac Stress Test: What to Know and How to Prepare
Discover the importance of a cardiac stress test for detecting heart conditions. Learn how it works, preparation tips and what results mean for you.
What Are 7 Ways to a Healthy Heart?
Key strategies for a healthy heart include making dietary changes, getting regular exercise, quitting smoking, managing stress, and scheduling regular health checkups.
6 Helpful Tips for Traveling with a Pacemaker
If you have a pacemaker or a surgically implanted defibrillator it’s important to take precautions before jetting off for your summer vacation.
9 Warning Signs of a Heart Attack from Your Body a Month Before
Heart attacks can happen suddenly or without notice. Warning signs may occur for many people hours, days or weeks in advance. Knowing these signs and symptoms can help you save your life.
Everything to Know About the Pediatric Cath Lab in 2025
Learn more about how the pediatric cath lab at Ochsner Children's in New Orleans diagnoses and treats heart problems in kids.
How to Keep Your Heart Healthy During Mardi Gras 2025
If you are on a low-sodium diet or prescription medication for high blood pressure, here's how to celebrate Mardi Gras safely.
Heart Attacks in Men & Women: What Are the Different Signs and Risks?
Learn the different signs and risks of heart attacks in men and women. Understand the symptoms and seek care with Ochsner Health.
Understanding High Blood Pressure and the Medications That Can Raise It
Discover tips for managing high blood pressure effectively, including medications to avoid if you have high blood pressure and explore safer alternatives.
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD): What is it and Who Needs One?
Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) or “heart pumps” support heart function and assist in blood flow to the body.
Broken Heart Syndrome: Important Signs and Symptoms to Know About
Have you ever had your heart broken? It hurts, doesn’t it. But there’s actually a real medical condition called broken heart syndrome.
Are Heart Murmurs in Children Dangerous?
In most cases, a pediatric cardiologist can listen to a child’s heart and determine if a murmur is an innocent murmur of childhood or deserves further workup.
6 Key Facts About Heart Disease Everyone Should Know
Heart disease myths range from who is most vulnerable, what you can and can’t do in terms of exercise and eating and what a heart attack looks and feels like.
5 Heart Attack Symptoms in Women That May Surprise You
Many people imagine a heart attack like they’ve seen in the movies, but women often suffer from more subtle symptoms, like neck pain or nausea.
Cold Weather and Heart Attacks: 3 Things to Know
Cold weather can cause your arteries to constrict, which can mean your heart has to work harder due to a rise in blood pressure and pulse.
Does Your Heart Race While You Sleep? Here's What You Should Know
Explore the reasons behind an increased heart rate when sleeping and learn practical steps to take if it's affecting your sleep quality and health.
Is Your Arm Pain a Sign of a Heart Attack?
Learn how arm pain relates to heart attacks, which arm it may affect and why early recognition saves lives.
Holiday Heart Health: 5 Tips for a Safe Season
Don't mistake heart issues for indigestion. Prioritize your health this festive season by learning to recognize warning signs of a heart attack.
Managing High Blood Pressure During the Holidays
Manage high blood pressure this holiday season with tips on stress relief, healthy eating, staying active and expert care.
What is Venous Insufficiency?
When the veins and valves in our lower body are not working properly, it is called venous insufficiency.
Best Exercises To Try If You Suffer From Peripheral Artery Disease
Are you a PAD patient who experiences pain in your lower legs after walking? These exercises can help.
Solving Leg Discomfort: Is Your Pain a Signal of Peripheral Artery Disease?
Peripheral arterial disease is atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which causes narrowing of vessels that carry blood to the legs and feet. If your vessels are blocked, that means your body isn’t getting the blood and oxygen it needs to function.
Top 3 Things to Know About Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions increasing your risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Discover the causes, symptoms and treatment options.
How Do Beta-Blockers Affect Your Heart, and Are They Safe?
Discover how beta-blockers affect your heart, their safety, and what you need to know about this common medication for heart conditions.
Mediterranean Diet: 12 Tips For A Heart-Healthy Diet
The Mediterranean diet is a heart-healthy way of eating based on the traditional cuisine of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Enhance Heart Health with Tips for a Happy 2025 Summer
Enjoy your summer with hydration, diet and exercise suggestions to maintain a healthy heart.
A Day in the Life of a Pediatric Heart Surgeon
Follow along with congenital heart surgeon Benjamin Peeler, MD, as he treats patients and works with his dedicated team.
Understanding Heart Valves and the Impact if One Malfunctions
What happens to your heart when you have a problem with one (or more) of your heart valves?
The Top Cause of Heart Attacks in Pregnant Women: SCAD
SCAD is a condition, that has the potential to cause devastating heart attacks in young or pregnant women. Know what SCAD is, who is at risk and the signs to look for.
8 Symptoms of Heart Disease in Women
Some women with heart disease may have no symptoms, while some might experience vague symptoms that aren't typically associated with heart disorders.
6 Signs of Heart Attack in Women
Heart attack symptoms can display themselves differently in men and women. While chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart attack, women are more likely to suffer a heart attack with more subtle signs.
Are Oysters High in Cholesterol?
If you like oysters, crabs and mussels, you’ll be happy to know that they can be incorporated into a heart healthy diet.
Heart Murmurs in Adults: 9 Symptoms to Be Aware Of
Being told that you have a heart murmur can be scary, but most are not serious or cause for alarm. A cardiac murmur is simply a heart sound that is abnormal. The sound is created by blood flow moving through one of the valves of your heart.
7 Top Tips for Living With a Pacemaker
A pacemaker is a small battery-operated device that helps the heart beat in a regular pattern. It is designed to only work when needed and replaces the heart’s natural pacemaker functions.
4 Surprising Signs of Congestive Heart Failure to Look Out For
Nausea, indigestion and stomach pain are just some of the lesser known symptoms of congestive heart failure.
How Do I Know If I Am Having a Heart Attack?
Heart attacks aren’t the same for everyone. Learn about the range of symptoms.
6 Surprising Everyday Habits That Hurt Your Heart
Sitting more than five hours a day, drinking excessively, not sleeping enough and too much stress have all been linked to higher rates of cardiovascular disease.
Do I Have Heart Disease? 5 Sneaky Signs to Know About
Being diagnosed with heart disease can be scary and unexpected. Not all signs or symptoms of heart disease are clear or obvious like a heart attack or irregular heartbeat. Some symptoms can be misleading or mistaken for something else.
Avocados Can Lower Heart Attack Risk
Incorporating avocados into your diet on a regular basis can help to protect against heart disease and improve overall health. You may be surprised to hear eating one serving of avocado a week can lower the risk of heart disease. A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association noted those who ate avocado regularly, substituting the fruit for foods with high fats like butter and cheese, had a lower risk of heart disease than those who rarely ate avocado in their diet.
Scheduling Cardiology Appointments Post Hurricanes
Ochsner Cardiology is dedicated to protecting our community post any natural disaster. We have a few changes to our appointments due to the recent hurricane.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease in the United States. It can also be one of the most difficult to predict.
What is a TAVR Procedure?
TAVR is a minimally invasive heart valve replacement procedure for those at increased risk for complications with traditional open-heart surgery.
Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: How to Manage
Every seven minutes, a child in the United States is born with a bicuspid aortic valve, so it is by no means an uncommon occurrence.
Pulmonary Hypertension Symptoms
Patients with pulmonary hypertension may have symptoms that are common to other diseases.
How Congenital Heart Disease Can Affect Neurodevelopment in Children
Neurodevelopmental issues can arise from many factors like genetic issues, abnormal blood flow, and as side effects from the surgical procedures these patients undergo.
Chest Pain in Kids: Is It Cardiac?
Both adults and children can have chest pain. But it’s important to remember that kids are not just small adults, and the causes of chest pain are much different.
What is Aortic Stenosis?
Aortic stenosis is one of the most common heart valve disease problems. Here’s the 411 on what it is, plus treatment options to explore with your cardiologist.
Baby Aspirin for Adults: New Warnings
In 2018, studies began to suggest that aspirin therapy isn’t for everyone. Nonetheless, the notion that aspirin promotes heart health for everyone, particularly seniors, has lingered.
Men’s Heart Health: An All-Ages Guide to Screenings
Here’s what to pay attention to in order to keep your heart healthy.
What is a Cath Lab?
A catheterization laboratory, or cath lab, is a procedural hospital room where minimally invasive tests and procedures are performed to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease.
5 Factors that Impact Your Heart Health
Your diet, whether or not you smoke, how sedentary your lifestyle is and your genetic history are all factors that impact your heart health.
7 Easy Steps to Ideal Heart Health
Even if your genetic history is working against you, you can improve your heart health through exercise, improving your diet, managing your blood pressure and controlling cholesterol.
What’s Raising Your Blood Pressure?
We should be mindful of our blood pressure because it can cause substantial health problems including stroke, kidney failure and heart attack.
Understanding Adult Congenital Heart Disease
These are the most common questions that both patients and family members have related to congenital heart disease in adultsT
Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Some pregnant women with heart disease can face serious complications while they are expecting, and it can cause lifelong, adverse health effects in both the mother and child.
Returning to Sports After COVID-19: Impacts on the Heart
We all know that physical activity increases your heart rate, but increasing your heart rate too high after COVID-19 can put a detrimental strain on your heart.
Do I Really Need an Amputation?
About 2.1 million Americans have experienced an amputation and more than 185,000 amputations are performed each year, according to the National Limb Loss Information Center.
Coronavirus Information for Heart Patients
What experts have observed concerning the coronavirus and heart disease patients including risk, symptoms, and what to do if you think you may have the virus.
Does Good Oral Hygiene Mean a Healthier Heart?
You may have heard about research in the past that showed poor oral hygiene can lead to heart problems, because of increased bacteria in the bloodstream that increases inflammation in the body. Inflammation can lead to heart-related complications.
Low Blood Pressure
Inadequate blood flow due to low blood pressure could result in oxygen and nutrients not reaching key organs. For some, it causes no problems at all, but it can cause dizziness and fainting in others.
What is Interventional Cardiology?
Place your hand over your chest. Do you feel that? It’s your lifeline. Your heart beats about 2.5 billon times over the average lifetime. Heart health is important at every age.
What is Cardiac Amyloidosis?
Cardiac amyloidosis is when abnormal proteins build up and deposit into your heart. If left untreated, a patient may experience congestive heart failure.
What is Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease?
Single ventricle heart disease is when one side of the heart does not form properly in utero. There are many variations of single ventricle heart disease.
Top Apps for Heart Health
There’s an app for almost anything these days – including for your heart health! And the best part is you’ve got plenty of options to choose from based on your personal health goals and your phone’s operating system.
6 Things to Know About Congenital Heart Disease
Heart mom Lacie Patterson discusses what she wish she would've known when her son Dylan was diagnosed with congenital heart disease.
What Are Congenital Heart Defects?
Did you know congenital heart defects are one of the most common types of birth abnormalities?
How Does Being in Love Affect the Heart? (Video)
Can love have a physiological effect on the heart? Cardiologists Nichole and Glenn Polin, MDs, explain.
Can Saints Football Stress Affect Your Heart?
Think about the last time you watched a game…was your heart pounding? As the stakes are getting higher, so are our heart rates.
Can Cardiorespiratory Fitness Lower Your Cancer Death Risk?
Cardiorespiratory fitness (also known as aerobic fitness) contributes to your overall heart heath. But what about reducing your risk of dying from cancer?
Pacemaker helps this Ochsner patient 'live hard and live well'
With the help of a pacemaker and his cardiology care team, Billy Freiberg is no longer just keeping pace.
Meet Your Circulatory System
Your circulatory system works as a team to keep your blood pumping. Meet some of the main players, see what could go wrong, and discover what you can do to maintain a healthy circulatory system.
Mother of Baby with Heart Defect Gives Hope to Others
Lacie's son Dylan was born with a life-threatening heart defect. Today, she helps shine a light for other heart families like hers.
A Little Warrior: Logan's Story
Logan was born with holes in his heart. Read the story of his care at Ochsner, which healed his heart and saved his life.
New Heart Device Keeps Ochsner Outdoorsman in the Hunt
Learn how Dr. Jenkins, FSCAI, and his team at the Ochsner Health Heart and Vascular Institute dramatically improved their patient’s quality of life with a simple procedure.
Five Questions to Test Your Heart Knowledge
How well do you know your heart? Answer these five questions below to find out how much you know about your heart and how to take care of it.
How Cancer Treatment Can Affect Heart Health
When dealing with cancer treatment, the last thing on your mind is likely the heart, but it is important to know that many cancer treatments can have immediate and long-term effects on the heart.
Making Cardiac Caths Easier for Patients
Over 80 million adults suffer from a form of heart disease. With today’s prevalence of heart disease, many adults will need coronary care or intervention in a hospital cardiac catheterization lab at some point in their lives.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest: The Silent Killer
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in the United States for adults over the age of 40 with nearly 850,000 people considered high risk. It’s estimated that about 95 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before ever reaching the hospital, which is why a new medical procedure is being hailed as a lifesaver.
Are You at Risk for Heart Failure?
Heart failure affects nearly 6 million Americans and is the leading cause of hospitalization in people older than 65
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