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ما هي الخطوات التي يمكنك اتخاذها بخلاف اتباع نظام غذائي صحي وممارسة الرياضة بهدف تحسين صحة قلبك؟ في هذا التنببه، تجيب جوشيا وامل، دكتورة الطب، الحاصلة على الدكتوراه، طبيبة القلب في مايو كلينك هيلثكير في لندن، على هذا السؤال وغيره من الأسئلة.
Quais são os passos que se pode tomar além de uma alimentação saudável e exercícios físicos para melhorar a sua saúde do coração? Neste alerta, a especialista, PhD e Dra. Gosia Wamil, cardiologista pela Mayo Clinic Healthcare em Londres, responde a essa pergunta e muito mais.
What are steps you can take beyond a healthy diet and exercise to improve your heart health? In this expert alert, Gosia Wamil, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London, answers that question and more.
¿Cuáles son los pasos que se pueden tomar más allá de una alimentación saludable y realizar ejercicios físicos para mejorar su salud del corazón? En esta alerta, la experta PhD y Dra. Gosia Wamil, cardióloga de Mayo Clinic Healthcare en Londres, responde a esa pregunta y más.
Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to provide advanced research training to post-graduate trainees from groups that are underrepresented in medicine and have research interests in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Over five years, nine researchers will receive intense research training and robust mentorship from almost 30 established, senior investigators across Montefiore and Einstein.
Since its approval in 2019, the Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder has been a game-changer—allowing teams to close a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in premature babies in a minimally invasive way.But there’s one problem: Some babies are too sick to be moved to a catheterization lab for the procedure.
A healthy placenta is critical for a healthy baby. But unfortunately, there’s no direct way to measure how well this important organ is working.
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.
New Structural Heart "Dream Team" Assembles at Hackensack University Medical Center
For 21 years, nurses have consistently been the most trusted profession, according to the yearly Gallup poll. (The new poll will be issued by the end of January). Dr Rushton, who specializes in burnout, will speak on trust, moral injury, and how nurses cope in this day and age.
Cleveland Clinic Survey: Most Americans Using Health Monitoring Technology are Experiencing Significant Physical and Mental Benefits
Every year, more than 40,000 patients in the U.S. undergo congenital heart surgery. But across centers, studies have shown that there can be significant variations in outcomes for these patients. To ensure that all children receive the best care, a group of leading experts across the country collaborated to create new, consensus recommendations for hospitals performing pediatric heart surgery.
A heart pump can save left heart failure patients’ lives, but the surgery to implant the pump often leads to right heart failure. Doctors now have a way to predict which patients are most at risk.
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 30, 2024 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., director of the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health and founding dean of the planned School of Population and Public Health, has been selected to receive the prestigious Edgar J. Kenton III Lecture Award from the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, just prior to its annual International Stroke Conference.
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Cardiologists and cardiac and vascular surgeons from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are available for interviews throughout February to discuss heart-related topics, including the latest advances in research and patient care.
February is American Heart Month, a time for awareness of heart-related conditions that affect adults and children. Johns Hopkins Medicine experts are available all month to discuss various aspects of heart health.
A new case study finds that recreationally trained athletes—“regular” people, as compared to elite athletes—may be able to achieve the extremely high levels of energy expenditure needed to complete high-endurance athletic events.
By: Bill Wellock | Published: January 29, 2024 | 8:51 am | SHARE: The American Heart Association spotlights cardiovascular health every February during American Heart Month. Understanding the risk factors that contribute to heart disease and how to manage that risk helps people live longer, healthier lives.Researchers at Florida State University examine heart health on a personal and community level.
Only 10% of people who experience a cardiac arrest survive.[1] In new challenge goals outlined in the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care 2030 Impact Goals and Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes, the American Heart Association’s volunteer advisory Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee makes the case for doubling survivorship to 20%.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a single “universal risk prediction model” for cardiovascular disease that, in initial tests, works well for patients who already have cardiovascular disease as well as patients who do not but who may be at risk for developing it.
Jennifer C. Romano, MD, a congenital heart surgeon at Congenital Heart Center/C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, and the Herbert Sloan Collegiate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, was elected president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons today at STS 2024 during the Society’s Business Meeting.
A study of pediatric heart surgery centers across the United States has demonstrated that, when it comes to successful surgery, it’s not just the size of the program that matters in determining quality outcomes.
In a study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2024 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, researchers examined outcomes for patients undergoing SAVR and those undergoing TAVR from 2013 to 2021 in the state of California.
A new study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 2024 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, examines the ongoing controversy surrounding the choice between multi-arterial grafting (MAG) and single arterial grafting (SAG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for multivessel coronary revascularization.
Cardiothoracic surgeons and investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai will lead sessions featuring a range of heart procedures at the 60th Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Jan. 27-29, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.
Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for men and women in the United States. Eating a healthy diet and exercising help keep the heart healthy along with regular checkups with a doctor.
The American College of Surgeons (ACS), with the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), has verified the first three outpatient centers as part of the recently launched Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP).
An international academic consortium has identified 13 biomarkers that significantly improve the ability to accurately predict cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 diabetes.
Pesquisadores da Mayo Clinic que estudam a genética de pessoas que recentemente desenvolveram cardiomiopatia dilatada (uma das causas mais comuns de insuficiência cardíaca), descobriram um gene particular para o qual o desenvolvimento de futuros tratamentos de terapia medicamentosa poderá ser direcionado.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا – يدرس الباحثون في مايو كلينك السمات الجينية للمرضى الذين أُصيبوا حديثًا باعتلالعضلة القلبالضخامي، أحد أكثر أسباب فشل القلب شيوعًا، واكتشفوا جينًا معيّنًا يمكن استهدافه من أجل تطوير العلاجات الدوائية المستقبلية. ويُذكر أن هذا المرض يُضعف من قدرة البطين الأيسر للقلب على ضخ الدم بفعالية إلى باقي الجسم. وفي هذه الدراسة التي تعتبر أول دراسة جماعية على مستوى الخريطة الجينية، يسعى الباحثون إلى اكتشاف السبب وراء تحسّن بعض المرضى بعد إصابتهم بهذه الحالة بينما لا يتحسن البعض الآخر.
Investigadores de Mayo Clinic que estudian la genética de personas que recientemente desarrollaron miocardiopatía dilatada, una de las causas más comunes de insuficiencia cardíaca, descubrieron que deben enfocarse en un gen particular para desarrollar tratamientos farmacológicos en el futuro.
New research confirms what public health leaders have been fearing: the significant uptick in the cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rate that began in 2020 has continued.
You may not know Carol Barr, but in the future, she could save your life. Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac arrest was caused by mitral valve prolapse—a heart valve defect that can affect the heart’s ability to pump blood. It can, in some cases, lead to death.
Mount Sinai cardiologists warn about the risk of heart problems during winter for American Heart Month
Sanjeev S. Ranade, Ph.D., who joined the faculty of Sanford Burnham Prebys this month as an assistant professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration program, studies how proteins called transcription factors (TFs) specifically control the development and function of cardiac cells — and what happens when things go wrong.
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Heart rhythm expert Sumeet Chugh, MD, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is the recipient of this year’s American College of Cardiology (ACC) Distinguished Scientist Award-Clinical Domain.