Scientists have engineered a microscale model that might one day serve as a testbed for personalized heart drugs. Megan McCain has always enjoyed building and fixing things. She also has long been fascinated by cells in the human body and how they work together to achieve important tasks, like how the heart pumps blood. As a...
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Heart attack on a chip shows how heart changes after the event
by University of Southern California Microscale model developed by USC researchers Megan Mccain and Megan Rexius that can replicate key aspects of myocardial infarction and might one day serve as a testbed for new personalized heart drugs. Credit: Megan Rexius Researchers at the University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed...
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Follow-up care with medication, testing after heart attack can prevent 94% of patients from having second cardiac event
by Intermountain Healthcare Credit: Intermountain Healthcare A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that following up a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, with a statin prescription and cholesterol measuring blood test, prevents 94% of patients from having or dying from a second cardiovascular event during the next...
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New troponin test improves heart attack diagnostics
by University of Turku Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new test has been developed in Turku, Finland, that helps in separating heart attack patients from those whose cardiac troponin values are elevated due to renal insufficiency. Blood sample tests for cardiac troponins are an important cornerstone in the diagnostics of heart attack, but the result...
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Heart attack: Could ‘love hormone’ help regenerate heart muscle
Might the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin be harnessed in the treatment of the heart following a heart attack? Image credit: Chelsea Victoria/Stocksy. Almost 18.6 million people die each year from cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease, which causes heart attacks. Researchers from Michigan State University have found evidence that the hormone oxytocin helps stimulate the regeneration of...
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PEOPLE WHO GET PERIODONTAL CARE FARE BETTER AFTER HEART ATTACK
The conventional wisdom is that medical and dental care are related, but less is known about how dental care relates to health outcomes after acute incidents like heart attacks. To that end, researchers studied patients receiving periodontal care, dental cleanings, or no dental care during 2016-2018 and who had a heart attack (acute myocardial infarction)...
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Study finds higher complication rate after heart attack in people with autoimmune disease
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After a heart attack, people with an autoimmune disease were more likely to die, develop heart failure or have a second heart attack compared to people without an autoimmune disease, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid...
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Researchers identify three proteins which have the potential to prevent heart failure after heart attack
by King’s College London Illustration of the cardiac FunSel screening system. The system generates a pool of AAV9 vectors to inject into mice and transduce heart cells, which are sequenced to identify protective factors. Credit: G. Ruozi, et al., Science Translational Medicine (2022) Scientists working to develop new therapies and treatments for heart failure patients have discovered...
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Dietary salt substitutes lower risk of heart attack, stroke and death
by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dietary salt substitutes lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from all causes and cardiovascular disease, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the journal Heart. The beneficial effects of these substitutes are likely to apply to people all around the world,...
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Flare-ups of gout are linked to heart attack and stroke, says new study
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Experts at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with experts at Keele University, have found that the risk of heart attacks and strokes temporarily increases in the four months after a gout flare. The research showed that gout patients who suffered from a heart attack or stroke were twice as likely to...