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A good resting heart rate depends on your age, gender, level of physical fitness, and overall lifestyle. Here's what you need ...

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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 ...

For older adults, total leisure time physical activity (PA) as well as walking are prospectively associated with indices of heart rate variability (HRV), according to a study published online in ...

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 ...