Southlake Health’s Regional Cardiac Program says it responded to double the usual number of heart attacks last week, and doctors say it's linked to shovelling snow.

Bev Gilbert was thinking about his heart as he and his wife dug their daughter's car out of its snow prison on a Toronto side ...

Health experts urge people to take it easy while shoveling snow, as heart attack deaths rise during the winter. A person clears snow from around their car during a snowstorm in Montreal ...

The cold temperatures also increase the risk for heart attack because the arteries constrict and this increases blood pressure.

The death rate from heart attacks is about 10 per cent higher in the winter, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, noting the danger can be even higher for older people. In addition to the ...