by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The accepted clinical practice of using beta blockers over the long term to curb the risk of further heart attacks or death doesn’t seem to be warranted in patients who don’t have heart failure, suggests a large study published in the journal Heart. The researchers found no difference in these risks...
by Josh Barney, University of Virginia The discovery of a gene that can determine risks for heart attacks and other vascular diseases could lead to new treatments for those conditions, and maybe even prevention. Credit: Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications/University of Virginia University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a gene that plays a crucial role...
by American Heart Association Electron micrographs of hepatitis C virus purified from cell culture. Scale bar is 50 nanometers. Credit: Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University. As people with HIV age, their risk of heart attack increases far more if they also have untreated hepatitis C virus, even if their HIV...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION RESTON, Va., May 14, 2022 — Young adults with higher than normal blood sugar levels that signal prediabetes were more likely to be hospitalized for heart attack compared to their peers with normal blood sugar levels, according to in preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific...
by University of Dundee Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Dundee research has helped explain why a commonly used antibiotic can lead to an increased risk of heart attacks, opening up the possibility of precision prescribing based on a patient’s genes. Clarithromycin accounts for around 15% of all primary care antibiotic prescriptions in the UK and is recommended...
