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Wearables and Your Heart Rate: Are these Devices Accurate?

Wendy Canty suffered a heart attack in 2018 at age 50. And soon knew she needed to find a new option and turned to Tufts Medical Center's heart research team to learn more about implantable heart pumps.

Mac and his team at Tufts MC refused to let cardiomyopathy take his life, so they did all they could to get him to a heart transplant.

Smoking. Diabetes. High cholesterol and blood pressure. Not only do they increase your chance of developing heart disease, but of peripheral artery disease, a painful condition of the legs and feet. Fortunately, researchers are working on new treatments.