Normal heart rate by age

Whether due to stress or an intense cardio workout, most of us have felt our heart racing from time to time.

What causes high pulse rate while resting

A rise in your heart rate can be perfectly normal given outside circumstances. However, there are some times when you feel like your chest is pounding and you wonder “what’s a dangerous heart rate?”

Your heart rate is the number of times your heart pump beats per minute to do its job, which is to circulate blood (to provide oxygen and nutrients) to the rest of the body, says Puja Mehta, M.D., director of Women’s Translational Cardiovascular Research at the Emory Women’s Heart Center and member of the Women’s Heart Alliance Scientific Advisory Board.

How we define whether a heart rate is normal or dangerous depends largely on your own average beats per minute.

Meet the Experts: Ronald Freudenberger, M.D., physician in chief at Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute; Puja Mehta, M.D., director of Women’s Translational Cardiovascular Research at the Emory Women’s Heart Center and member of the Women’