Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far.
Heart failure is a potentially urgent health concern for young adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) that is often overlooked and undertreated, even as hospitalizations for this condition continue to rise.
A dietary supplement developed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher significantly reduced high blood sugar caused by a diuretic used to lower blood pressure while also correcting electrolyte imbalances, UTSW researchers report. The findings, published in Hypertension, could offer a solution for the serious side effects associated with this class of drugs.
The clinical trial, led by Mirnela Byku, MD, PhD, MBA, at the UNC School of Medicine, found that excluding aspirin from the antithrombotic regimen in patients with a levitated left ventricular assist device is safe.
Noted experts in cardiovascular rehabilitation attending the Third Jim Pattison-Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation Symposium (Banff, April 21-23, 2023) observed that although cardiac rehabilitation benefits diverse groups of patients and affords the most cost-effective prevention for recurrent events, it is grossly underutilized globally.
A large proportion of patients who start taking ADHD medication, especially young adults, stop within the first year. However, people who use ADHD medicine for a long time and in higher-than-average doses seem to have a higher risk of some cardiovascular diseases.
Noted experts in cardiovascular rehabilitation attending the Third Jim Pattison-Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation Symposium (Banff, April 21-23, 2023) observed that although cardiac rehabilitation benefits diverse groups of patients and affords the most cost-effective prevention for recurrent events, it is grossly underutilized globally.
In diseased hearts, low-dose radiation therapy appears to improve heart function. The research, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, could lead to new heart failure therapies.
A new study from the UW found that unfiltered air from rush-hour traffic significantly increased passengers’ blood pressure, both while in the car and up to 24 hours later.
New research helps explain the recent reversal in cardiovascular mortality among this population and underscores the need to address the social determinants of health that contribute to it.
A new study finds that alcohol consumption may have counteractive effects on cardiovascular disease risk, depending on the biological presence of certain circulating metabolites—molecules that are produced during or after a substance is metabolized and studied as biomarkers of many diseases.
Si usted corre el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca, el equipo de atención médica podría utilizar la herramienta de la ecuación de cohorte agrupada para determinar su riesgo a largo plazo y si la administración de estatinas (medicamentos para reducir el colesterol) es una buena opción.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا—إذا كنت مهددًا بخطرالإصابة بمرض القلب فقد يستخدم فريق الرعاية الصحية أداة معادلة تقييم المخاطر المُشتركة بين الفئات العمرية(PCE) لتحديد خطر إصابتك على المدى الطويل وما إذا كان تناول أدوية خافِضة للكوليسترول — أدوية خفض الكوليستيرول، خيار مناسب لك أم لا.
Se você está sob o risco de ter uma doença cardíaca, a equipe de cuidados médicos pode usar a ferramenta de equação de coorte agrupada (PCE) para determinar o seu risco de longo prazo, e se a administração de estatinas (medicamentos para reduzir o colesterol) é uma boa opção.
This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ transplant—this time, a kidney.
On his way to class, an unsuspecting student at Tates Creek High School stumbles onto a shocking scene. In an empty hallway, a figure lies motionless on the floor. The student quickly knocks on the door of the nearest classroom and informs the teacher there’s an unresponsive person who needs help.
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), in conjunction with the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2023 conference, CRF's annual scientific symposium, announced today the launch of the CRF Scientific Excellence Top 10 (SET-10), a new global annual ranking recognizing academic contributions to interventional cardiovascular medicine.
Published just before World Diabetes Day, work by Dr. May Faraj, director of the Research Unit on Nutrition, Lipoproteins and Cardiometabolic Diseases at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and full professor at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Montreal, highlight a new mechanism and a new role for LDL – commonly called bad cholesterol – in the development of type 2 diabetes, LDL already being involved in cardiovascular diseases in the human.
Avoiding aspirin in antithrombotic regimen with LVAD reduces bleeding events, according to a study recently published in JAMA.
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Investigators from the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have found that among a cohort of women with obstructive coronary artery disease treated at academic medical centers, racial and ethnic disparities did not impact their long-term outcomes.
Postoperative atrial fibrillation after heart valve surgery increases the risk of strokes and permanent Afib - and is linked to worse long term survival, a study shows.
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A national study demonstrates that neighborhood exposure to environmental hazards is significantly associated with poor cardiovascular health across the United States.
Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently published a paper in the journal Pediatrics showing that many children treated for MIS-C had some degree of cardiac injury.
One University of Kentucky researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The heart.
The research team has microscopically mapped out part of the heart. To put this microscopic level into perspective, if the heart is a continent, UK's Kenneth S. Campbell and fellow researchers are looking at single strands of hair.
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One University of Kentucky researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The heart. Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., the director of translational research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the UK College of Medicine, helped map out an important part of the heart on a molecular level. The study titled “Cryo-EM structure of the human cardiac myosin filament” was published online in the prestigious journal Nature earlier this month.
Sudden cardiac arrest remains a deadly and complex condition, but investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have discovered a new method—using a widely available cardiovascular test—for predicting the heart malfunction.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles hosted a special educational symposium on “Aortic Valve Stenosis: From Fetus to Adult” at the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington, D.C.
Simple changes in patient ventilation procedures during out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could lead to a dramatic improvement in cardiac arrest survival rates, according to a landmark study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The odds of prescribing the appropriate dose of statins—a medicine used to lower “bad” cholesterol levels—increased sixfold when automated referrals were made to pharmacy services, instead of relying on traditional prescribing methods, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Replacing sitting with as little as a few minutes of moderate exercise a day tangibly improves heart health, according to new research from UCL and the University of Sydney.
A four-year, $2.6 million grant to study circadian rhythm and novel therapies to protect the heart during a heart attack or cardiac surgery has been awarded to UTHealth Houston by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Cardiologists Carlos Ince, M.D., FACC, and M. Kate Elfrey, D.O., both of The Heart Center at Mercy, are the featured guests on Mercy Medical Center’s monthly talk show, “Medoscopy,” airing Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 15th and 16th at 5:30 p.m. EST.
In 2021, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the academic core of Advocate Health, received a $29.9 million, six-and-a-half-year award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and launched a multi-center, patient-randomized control trial, which is now expanding its footprint with the addition of two Advocate Health sites.
Analyses led by Corinne Keet, MD, PhD, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, of two longitudinal studies reveal how an increased level of an antibody called immunoglobin (IgE) to cow’s milk is associated to cardiovascular-related death.