Vets perform risky three-hour surgery to save horse with rare heart condition
A rider has praised the skill of vets who performed potentially life-saving surgery on her horse’s extremely rare circulatory condition
Heart problems
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Call for all riders to have heart screenings
Dr Steven Cox, of Cardiac Risk in the Young, is encouraging all people between the ages of 14-35 to have an ECG screening
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16 things you need to know about your horse’s heart
Every horse has one, but do you know why the heart is a muscle, what causes it to beat and what rates are considered healthy? Here are 16 things you need to know about how the equine heart works — and what can go wrong
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Heart health in horses: how technology can help [H&H VIP]
Working at speed calls for a healthy, well-trained heart. Andrea Oakes discovers how technology can help us track heart performance and detect potential problems
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Legs, lungs and poor performance
Owners and riders often blame their horse’s heart for loss of performance. But in the “poor performance stakes” the heart trails in last, a long way behind orthopaedic and respiratory disease
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New equine heart rate monitor launched for horse owners
A new heart rate monitor that can be used by horse owners at home has been launched on the market
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Horse have a sixth sense to pick up on anxiety, research has shown
Swedish research has scientifically demonstrated that an increase in a rider’s heart rate can lead to an increase in their horse’s heart rate.
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The latest research on heart murmurs
Finding out your horse has a heart abnormality can come as a shock, but new evidence has shown that murmurs need not spell trouble
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Understanding heart attacks in horses
The death of Best Mate has brought heart failure to the forefront of owner's minds, but it's not only racehorses that can suffer this untimely demise, as H&H explains
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Understanding the heart beat
Your horse’s pulse is the mirror to its wellbeing so being able to check it, know what is normal and what to do if it deviates from that norm is a basic but vital area of horse management
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Understanding unusual heart beats
The horse's heart is normally an efficient pumping system, but when atrial fibrillation develops, the rhythm becomes chaotically irregular
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Understanding your horse's heart
Expert advice from HORSE magazine on how to check your horse's heartbeat and the significance of high and low pulse rates
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All about the horse's heart
The horse's heart is an efficient organ, which enables the horse to become a talented athlete
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Understanding heart murmurs
Most heart murmurs are not to be worried about, while some affect the horse's health and performance
