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First multi-chamber heart organoids unravel human heart development and disease
Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists—so far. A new multi-chamber organoid that mirrors the heart's ...
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New findings on long-term treatment of ADHD and link to cardiovascular disease
A large proportion of patients who start taking ADHD medication, especially young adults, stop within the first year. However, people who use ADHD medicine for a long time and in higher-than-average doses seem to have a higher ...
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Prioritizing circulation before the airway in trauma may improve outcomes for patients with massive bleeding
For trauma patients suffering from massive blood loss, a care approach that emphasizes halting bleeding and restoring circulation first, rather than the traditional approach of restoring the airway first, can help improve ...
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Measuring long-term heart stress dynamics with smartwatch data
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method using data from wearable devices such as smartwatches to digitally mimic an entire week's worth of an individual's heartbeats. The previous record covered only ...
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Spanish scientists discover a promising therapeutic target for cardiac arrhythmias
A study led by Guadalupe Sabio and José Jalife at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid has identified a new signaling mechanism implicated in the development of ventricular fibrillation, ...
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Breathing highway air increases blood pressure, research finds
For more than a century, American cities have been sliced and diced by high-traffic roadways. Interstate highways and wide arterials are now a defining feature of most metropolitan areas, their constant flow of cars spewing ...
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Scientists create patch that may successfully treat congenital heart defects in infants and last a lifetime
Using laboratory engineered tissue, scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have created a full-thickness, biodegradable patch that holds the promise of correcting congenital heart defects in infants, ...
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New device and drug combination could revolutionize heart failure treatment
A newly-developed heart failure device and medication combination is safe and effective to use, and will allow patients to receive treatment from the comfort of their own home.
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Alcohol consumption may have positive and negative effects on cardiovascular disease risk
Although past research has indicated that moderate alcohol consumption can lower one's risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), more recent studies suggest that moderate levels of drinking may be hazardous to heart health. A ...
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Study finds one week of night shifts per month does not increase the risk of coronary heart disease
If you clock in for work in the early hours when most of the population is still asleep, you may have heard that it increases the risk of heart disease. But now there is good news from Aarhus University for those of us who ...
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Dapagliflozin suppresses cardiovascular events in patients with chronic heart failure, type 2 diabetes mellitus: Study
The DAPPER study was conducted with the National Cardiovascular Center as the principal investigator, with 294 patients participating from 18 facilities in Japan. In this study, researchers investigated whether dapagliflozin ...
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Mean platelet volume linked to mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients
For patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD), mean platelet volume (MPV) is associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders.
Nov 24, 2023
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Access to cardiac rehabilitation: Hurdles and hopes for improvement
A new review article, published in Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications offers solutions to improve access to underutilized cardiac rehabilitation.
Nov 24, 2023
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Drones enable the use of defibrillators before ambulance arrival, study shows
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than half of the cases, the drones ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Previously unknown protein plays a key role in a congenital malformation of the heart
Through experiments on genetically modified mice, a team led by Ursula Quitterer, Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at ETH Zurich, determined which molecular switches are involved and how they need to be thrown to halt ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Semaglutide could benefit millions of Americans with obesity, heart disease
Semaglutide (brand name: Wegovy) has the potential to markedly reduce the risk of heart attacks and other heart-related conditions among millions of Americans with obesity who have also been diagnosed with cardiovascular ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Researchers claim vitamin supplements and new technology can help prevent secondary stroke
A team of researchers, including one from the University of Maine, argue that vitamin supplements can help prevent secondary strokes. They also advocate for the value of new technologies in eye research to verify these findings.
Nov 22, 2023
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2015 to 2018 hypertension prevalence nearly 50 percent in the United States
The prevalence of stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension in 2015 to 2018 was 44.2 percent in Los Angeles (LA) County and 47.3 percent in the United States, according to a report published in the November Health E-Stats, a publication ...
Nov 22, 2023
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Apotransferrin shows promise as an early treatment for stroke
Researchers from Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) have discovered that administering human apotransferrin to mice models affected by intracerebral hemorrhage can mitigate the damaging effects of this severe ...
Nov 21, 2023
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New target identified for pulmonary hypertension treatment
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers at the school's South Bend regional campus, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Notre Dame, have identified a new therapeutic target for pulmonary hypertension, ...
Nov 21, 2023
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