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Half of people with heart failure have a type called preserved ejection fraction. Explode/ Shutterstock Vassilios Vassiliou, University of East Anglia and Vasiliki Tsampasian, University of East Anglia Heart failure is one of the most common cardiac diseases, affecting more than 30 million people worldwide. It happens when the heart can’t deliver enough blood and oxygen to meet the demands …

El Nariz/Shutterstock Matthew Farrow, University of Bradford Everybody knows that exercising is good for your heart, so recent news that over-exercising can block up your arteries, may have come as a shock to many. The study, which was widely reported in the media, found that very active people have higher coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores than less active people. The …