TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM (Philadelphia, PA) – Like a failing fuel pump that causes a loss of engine power in a car, a diseased heart can take a serious toll on the body’s performance. For some patients, tasks like walking up a flight of stairs or walking across a room eventually turn into exhausting endeavors....
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Obesity weakens heart muscle in patients with a common type of heart failure
by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Two hearts, a normal on the left and one with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) on the right. The heart with HFpEF has a thicker, stiffer left ventricular wall and therefore, less room in the ventricle chamber to fill with an adequate amount of blood to be...
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Intravenous iron reduced rehospitalization risk in people with heart failure
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2020 — Patients who were hospitalized with acute heart failure and had iron deficiency were less likely to return to the hospital if given intravenous iron replacement, according to late-breaking research presented today at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2020. The virtual meeting is Friday, November 13 – Tuesday, November...
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Latinx people more vulnerable to COVID-19, US study finds
An analysis of COVID-19 testing in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area of the United States found that Latinx people were around three times as likely to test positive, compared with any other ethnic or racial group. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some information may be out...
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Women taking beta blockers for hypertension may have higher risk of heart failure with acute coronary syndrome
DALLAS, July 13, 2020 — Women taking beta blockers for hypertension with no prior history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have a nearly 5% higher risk for heart failure than men when they present to hospital with acute coronary syndrome, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal. Beta blockers are...
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Widely used blood test could advance heart failure treatment
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Biomedical experts believe that half of heart failure patients likely have low levels of the thyroid hormone T3 in their cardiac tissue. While heart failure symptoms are commonly attributed to cardiovascular conditions like coronary artery disease and high blood pressure, a growing number of studies suggest that low cardiac T3...
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New antiplatelet drug shows promise for treating heart attack
by University of Illinois at Chicago UIC’s Xiaoping Du oversees Ph.D. student Yaping Zhanga enter a sample in an aggregometer in his lab at the College of Medicine Research Building Credit: Joshua Clark/University of Illinois at Chicago Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a new drug that prevents blood clots without...
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New app helps doctors to check patients’ jugular venous pressure remotely
by UT Southwestern Medical Center A new report from cardiologists at UT Southwestern raises the hope that doctors will be able to visually check the jugular venous pressure of heart failure patients remotely, using the camera on a smartphone. The finding is especially timely as telemedicine expands during the pandemic. The jugular venous pressure assessment,...
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Death risk highest for people with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes who get heart failure
Circulation: Cardiovascular quality and outcomes journal report AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, June 23, 2020 — Heart failure posed the greatest 5-year risk of death for people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes than any other heart or kidney diseases, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association...
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Tongue microbes provide window to heart health
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY CLINICALLY, THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN TONGUE IMAGES, INCLUDING TONGUE COATING AND TONGUE COLOUR BETWEEN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE (CHF) PATIENTS AND HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS. RECENT REPORTS HAVE SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS IN THE TONGUE… view more CREDIT: @EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY 2020 Sophia Antipolis – 23 June 2020: Microorganisms on the tongue could help diagnose...