Better options needed for children at higher risk of premature heart disease
American Heart Association Scientific Statement DALLAS, Feb.25, 2019 -- Obesity and severe obesity in childhood and adolescence have been added ...
Tag: Cardiology
New 2019 guidelines for patients with atrial fibrillation
UMN Medical School expert is part of the writing committee that drafted the 2019 guidelines for the management of patients ...
Scientists unravel genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Finns
One third of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cases in Finland are caused by one of the four major mutations, a new study ...
Study links Celebrex, heart valve calcification after earlier research declared drug safe
Big-data analysis finds link specifically between Celebrex and heart valve calcificationCredit: Vanderbilt University A well-known, four-year study found popular arthritis ...
Scientists discover new type of immune cells that are essential for forming heart valves
UCLA study sheds new light on critical role of heart-derived macrophagesCredit: Developmental Cell/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center UCLA researchers ...
New ‘interspecies communication’ strategy between gut bacteria and mammalian hosts uncovered
Study describes molecular language bacteria use to control host genes and developmentCredit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Bacteria ...
10 percent of Chinese adults have high heart disease risk, aren’t treated for it
New Haven, Conn. - Researchers at Yale and at the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease in China just quantified a ...
Women with more social support are less likely to die, new study finds
Credit: George Mason University Fairfax, VA - Women aged 50-79 who believed they had more social support were less likely ...
Why a blow to the chest can kill or save you
A blow to the chest can have highly contrasting effects. For instance, some baseball players have died after being hit ...
Mainz University Medical Center implanted first motor-controlled heart valves in Europe
Innovative new treatment option for narrowed aortic valves is first used in MainzCredit: photo/©: Peter Pulkowski, Mainz University Medical Center ...
Hesperos’ multi-organ ‘human-on-a-chip’ found effective for long-term toxicology testing
Collaboration between L'Oreal, Hesperos and UCF results in further reduction in reliance on animal testing in drug and cosmetics developmentCredit: ...
Yale New Haven becomes first in Connecticut to perform pediatric heart transplants
New Haven, Conn. - Yale New Haven Children's Hospital (YNHCH) today announced that it has become the first hospital in ...
The ‘blue’ in blueberries can help lower blood pressure
A new study published in the Journal of Gerontology Series A has found that eating 200g of blueberries every day ...
Powering a pacemaker with a patient’s heartbeat
Credit: American Chemical Society Implantable pacemakers have without doubt altered modern medicine, saving countless lives by regulating heart rhythm. But ...
Stable ischemic heart disease in the older adult
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Volume 3, Number 3, ...
Diabetes mellitus and stable ischemic heart disease
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Volume 3, Number 3, ...
Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic targets in stable ischemic heart disease
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Volume 3, Number 3, ...
Contemporary management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease
In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Volume 3, Number 3, ...
Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men
Active, middle-aged men able to complete more than 40 push-ups had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes--including ...
CVIA special issue on stable ischemic heart disease
Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications Journal (Volume 3 Issue 3)Credit: Compuscript 2019 The journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just ...