Take heart murmurs seriously say cardiologists
Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope.
Feb 26, 2024
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Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope.
Feb 26, 2024
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A passionate plea for the re-establishment of Canada's health coalition focused on hypertension prevention and control has been published as an editorial in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. "We need a national hypertension ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Thanks to advancements in the development of patented synthetic human-like hearts first created at Michigan State, researchers can study human heart development and congenital heart disease on highly accurate models. This ...
Feb 24, 2024
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When people hear about predicting heart disease, most will think of cholesterol levels. While cholesterol is a major contributor to heart disease, a recent study from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of Mass ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are a common treatment for patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular conditions. DOACs are the preferred treatment over vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for many patients with atrial fibrillation ...
Feb 23, 2024
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It's only about the size of your fist. Yet it pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body every day. If you could stretch out the complex network of blood vessels in your body through which your heart pumps oxygen ...
Feb 23, 2024
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Stress is inevitable. But too much of it can be terrible for our health. Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has remained a mystery—a challenge ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Treatment for infants who have severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is sometimes limited. Because they haven't physically matured, a procedure could increase the risk of serious complications, including failure of ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Too often, the first sign of cardiovascular disease may be a major event like a heart attack, stroke or cardiac arrest. Now, researchers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to flag ...
Feb 22, 2024
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More than a decade of new knowledge about neurodevelopmental risk in people with congenital heart disease has changed the thinking about who is most at risk and the factors that impact neurological development, learning, ...
Feb 22, 2024
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