By Elaine Chen More than a dozen of stem cells in a blood vessel — health coverage from STATAgrowing body of data show that South Asians are at greater risk of developing heart disease than white people, and they tend to get complications at younger ages, but it’s not been fully clear what explains this...
by Kendall Daniels, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Histologic image of hidradenitis suppurativa. Credit: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Medicine researchers Christopher Sayed, MD, Yun Li, Ph.D., and Karen Mohlke, Ph.D., discovered the genomic locations that contribute to...
by University of Gothenburg Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1007/s00125-021-05594-1 Researchers at the University of Gothenburg now associate elevated levels of the protein galectin-1 with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes about 18 years later. At the same time, this protein seems to be a protective factor for the kidneys among type 2 diabetes patients...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, July 12, 2021 — People of South Asian ancestry have more than double the risk of developing heart disease compared to people of European ancestry, yet clinical risk assessment calculators used to guide decisions about preventing or treating heart disease may fail to account for the increased risk, according to new research published...
