by McMaster University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), a large international study has found—the first such study to include people not only from high income countries, but also from low- and middle-income countries where the burden of CVD is the greatest. The...
by Duke University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A genetic risk for heart disease is far less predictive of problems than actual lifestyle risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes—even among younger adults. In a finding published July 26 in the journal Circulation, researchers led by a team at Duke AI Health found...
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in the United States, are at significant risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke, according to new research from New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. This study, published...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis, 17 June 2022: Recommendations on how to use gene testing to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes and enable safe exercise are published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “Genetic testing for potentially lethal variants is more accessible than ever...
by Hubrecht Institute A microscopy picture of muscle cells in a normal heart (left) and muscle cells in a heart of a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (right). The black areas are single muscle cells. The muscle cells of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient are bigger, and there is more space in between the cells (green), which...
by Krista Conger, Stanford University Medical Center People who smoke marijuana more than once a month have an increased risk of heart attack and heart disease, Stanford researchers and their colleagues have found. Credit: Dmytro Tyshchenko/Shutterstock People who use marijuana have an increased risk of heart disease and heart attack, according to a large study...
by National Institutes of Health Cumulative Incidence of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia in Patients Treated With Tofacitinib, Tocilizumab, or Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors (TNFi) vs Abatacept After 1:1 Propensity Score Matching, Medicare Data 2007–2017. Analysis 1 indicates an as-treated follow-up approach; analysis 2, an as-started follow-up approach incorporating a 6-month induction period; analysis 3,...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis – 7 April 2022: Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “The benefits of smoking cessation are even greater than we realised,”...
by Brian Aguado, The Conversation Hearts with aortic valve stenosis must pump harder to push blood through a narrowed aortic valve to the rest of the body. Credit: SuneErichsen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Mar 15 2022 Could a spritz of super-tiny particles of gold and peptides on a damaged heart potentially provide minimally invasive, on-the-spot repair? Cutting-edge research led by University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine Associate Professors Dr. Emilio Alarcon and Dr. Erik Suuronen suggests a spray-on technology using customized nanoparticles of...
