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

Your resting heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute while your body is at rest – when you're sitting or lying down, having not engaged in much physical ac ...

Your pulse rate tells a lot about your physical and mental health. While a normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute, anything over or under this implies all is not ...

Bradycardia, a slow resting heart rate, is healthy for elite athletes — but it can be dangerous if not caused by exercise ...

Every time you visit a doctor, you will notice that they will put their fingertips on your wrist and seem to check something. In medical terms, it is known as reading the pulse. Examining the pulse ...

Healthy hearts are adaptable, and heartbeats exhibit complex variation as they adjust to tiny changes in the body and environment. Researchers have applied a new way to measure the complexity of pulse ...