Abnormal heart murmurs can occur in both children and adults. They usually occur when there is an underlying heart condition.

How did the doctors come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a “functional” (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as “transitory, innocent.” ...

Disease of the cardiac valves and other cardiac structures frequently results in abnormal, turbulent blood flow within the heart, causing murmurs. Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an ...

For example, as many as 90% of women experience heart murmurs during pregnancy, according to Northwestern Medicine. It is estimated that 10% of adults and 30% of kids have murmurs that are totally ...

or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal defects. A midsystolic murmur begins just after the S1 heart sound ...

“Before smartwatches, no one was thinking about heart-rate monitoring,” said Anna Barnacka, CEO and president of health-tech start-up MindMics. “Today, everyone is quite aware about how ...