by Vanderbilt University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Prior work has demonstrated that infections can potentially lead to systemic inflammatory responses that can trigger the...
CLEVELAND CLINIC IMAGE: NEW CLEVELAND CLINIC RESEARCH, LED BY DR. STANLEY HAZEN, SHOWED THAT ERYTHRITOL, A POPULAR ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED RISK OF HEART ATTACK AND STROKE. CREDIT: CLEVELAND CLINIC Monday, February 27, 2023, Cleveland: New Cleveland Clinic research showed that erythritol, a popular artificial sweetener, is associated with an increased risk...
by Noah Fromson, University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Aside from injuries, the second most common reason adults in the United States go to the emergency department is chest pain, accounting for more than 6.5 million visits annually. Despite the growing prevalence of cardiovascular disease nationwide, more than half of these chest pain visits...
by University of Tsukuba Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Japan reveal that they may just have found a way to repair cardiac damage in patients suffering from chronic heart attack and heart failure. In a study published in Circulation, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown that changing heart cell programming by tweaking the...
High levels of a specific form of cholesterol plus high blood pressure are tied to a doubled risk of cardiovascular events in a new study. Image credit: Stas Pylypets/Stocksy. Researchers investigated the effect of lipoprotein (a) cholesterol levels and hypertension on cardiovascular risk. They found that higher lipoprotein (a) levels increase cardiovascular risk in patients with hypertension. This relationship...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
