The study covered in this summary is under consideration at Cardiovascular Diabetology and was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Patients with type 2 ...

Barcelona, Spain, 31 August: A new definition of syncope – most commonly perceived as an episode of fainting – makes its diagnosis more precise and now dependent on a specific cause. New 2009 ESC ...

Fainting or blacking out, also known as syncope, is a temporary loss of consciousness due to insufficient blood flow to the brain. Dreamstime/TNS You may have heard that people who feel faint should ...

Establishing the cause or causes of syncope serves two principal purposes. First, an etiologic diagnosis permits assessment of prognosis and risk of recurrence, both issues of great concern for ...

Adam Christman, DVM, MBA: Okay, I think the number one most important question, not most important. There's a lot of great ones, but this is a very common question that we ask get asked is it a ...

You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can you tell whether you or someone else who has fainted should go to the ...