A scientific statement regarding sex differences in patients with peripheral vascular disease has been published by the AHA.

The job of veins is to transport de- oxygenated blood back to the heart and lungs. Unlike arteries, veins contain valves that make sure that the blood flows at a very low pressure. But when these ...

Laid end-to-end, an adult's arteries, veins and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times. Each 2.54 square centimetre (a square inch ...

Arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body. A blood clot within an artery is called an arterial thrombosis. Veins carry oxygen-poor blood from the body's tissues to the ...