by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Phone calls from a nurse may improve survival for patients treated for heart failure, according to a new study by investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Heart failure occurs when the heart does not pump enough blood to support the organs. Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have...
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY IMAGE: THE LIGHTWEIGHT BELT CONTINUOUSLY MONITORS ALL OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH HEART FAILURE IN REAL TIME, 24/7. CREDIT: FAU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE There are about 64 million cases of heart failure worldwide. According to the American Heart Association, 6.2 million adults in the United States have heart...
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are some benefits and potentially serious risks when people with heart failure use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), to manage symptoms, so involving the health care team is important for safety, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the Association’s flagship,...
by McMaster University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Flu shots can save the lives of people with cardiovascular disease by reducing cardiac complications as well as preventing influenza. An international study led by McMaster University researchers and published in The Lancet Global Health has found that influenza vaccines greatly reduce both pneumonia and cardiovascular complications in people with heart failure. “If...
by ByTerri Malloy, Mayo Clinic Study participant engagement with the customized Mayo Clinic iPhone application. Credit: Nature Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02053-1 A study published in Nature Medicine reports the ability of a smartwatch ECG to accurately detect heart failure in nonclinical environments. Researchers at Mayo Clinic applied artificial intelligence (AI) to Apple Watch ECG recordings to identify patients with...
by University of Manitoba Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team led by Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and St. Boniface Hospital Research has identified a protein called TRAF2 that stops functioning in cancer patients taking the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, which can result in heart failure. “The finding could lead to new...
HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FROM LEFT: SHINGO TAKADA, HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY AND HOKUSHO UNIVERSITY; SHINTARO KINUGAWA, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY; AND HISATAKA SABE, HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (PHOTOS: SHINGO TAKADA, SHINTARO KINUGAWA, HISATAKA SABE). CREDIT: SHINGO TAKADA, SHINTARO KINUGAWA, HISATAKA SABE Investigations in Japan have uncovered some molecular mechanisms behind mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic heart failure. Chronic heart failure causes the...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN For years, cardiologists have zeroed in on a hormone called BNP as a gold standard to determine if patients with heart failure are at risk of severe illness or death. It’s released by the heart in response to when the cardiac tissue stretches due to pressure. While the B-type natriuretic peptide,...
by Centenary Institute Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Genetic testing can diagnose cardiomyopathy—a disease of the heart muscle—in children and help detect who will have heart failure and require a transplant, a new study has found. Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have shown that genetic testing for cardiomyopathy in children and their first...
by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Multivariable Cox Proportional-Hazards Models in the TOPCAT trial. Multivariable Cox proportional-hazards models that include endotrophin, NT-proBNP, and MAGGIC (Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure) risk score as predictors of (Panel A) the primary end point, (Panel B) death or heart failure–related hospital admission, and (Panel...
