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Greater traumatic stress linked with elevated inflammation in heart patients

Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center ...

Cardiology created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solution does not reduce rate of progression to development of heart attack after chest pain

Patients experiencing symptoms such as chest pain who received from paramedics an intravenous solution consisting of glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) had no reduction in the rate of progression to heart attack and no improvement ...

Cardiology created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Heart damage after chemo linked to stress in cardiac cells

Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests.

Cardiology created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows survival advantage for bypass surgery compared with non-surgical procedure

A new comparative effectiveness study found older adults with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) who underwent bypass surgery had better long-term survival rates than those who underwent a non-surgical procedure to improve ...

Cardiology created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Promising target in treating and preventing the progression of heart failure identified

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a new drug target that may treat and/or prevent heart failure. The team evaluated failing human and pig hearts and discovered that SUMO1, a so-called "chaperone" ...

Cardiology created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ability to sit and rise from the floor is closely correlated with all-cause mortality risk

A simple screening test of musculo-skeletal fitness has proved remarkably predictive of all-cause mortality in a study of more than 2000 middle-aged and older men and women. The study, performed in Brazil by Dr Claudio Gil ...

Cardiology created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study identifies weakness in heart attack therapy

A UCSF study holds clues to why an emerging clinical trials option for heart attack patients has not been as successful as anticipated. Treatment of human hearts with bone marrow cells has led to limited to ...

Cardiology created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tenecteplase drug bests standard treatment for certain strokes

(HealthDay) -- A medication called tenecteplase may be more effective at treating strokes caused by clots in large blood vessels in the brain than the current standard therapy, Australian researchers report.

Cardiology created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find how specialized pacemaker works at biological level to strengthen failing hearts

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins have figured out how a widely used pacemaker for heart failure, which makes both sides of the heart beat together to pump effectively, works at the biological level. Their findings, published ...

Cardiology created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cold-blooded research has hearts thumping

The protective effect of inducing controlled hypothermia following sudden cardiac arrest will now be investigated in detail. The goal of the scientific work is to judge whether this type of cryotherapy can ...

Cardiology created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HPV linked to cardiovascular disease in women

Women with cancer-causing strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke even when no conventional risk factors for CVD are present.

Cardiology created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists one step closer to creating youthful heart patches from old cells

A new method of growing cardiac tissue is teaching old stem cells new tricks. The discovery, which transforms aged stem cells into cells that function like much younger ones, may one day enable scientists ...

Cardiology created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-resolution imaging technology reveals cellular details of coronary arteries

Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the intravascular imaging technology optical coherence tomography ...

Cardiology created Jul 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune response to heart attack worsens atherosclerosis, increases future risk

A heart attack doesn't just damage heart muscle tissue by cutting off its blood supply, it also sets off an inflammatory cascade that worsens underlying atherosclerosis, actively increasing the risk for a future heart attack. ...

Cardiology created Jun 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The birth of new cardiac cells

Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), ...

Cardiology created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast