Some patients with advanced heart failure can benefit from the support of a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) to sustain heart function. However, despite improvements in managing complications associated ...
Nov 12, 2024
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Scientists at deCODE genetics have published a study in Nature Communications that sheds light on how body mass index (BMI) influences the risk of various diseases that are comorbid with obesity. The study, which used genetic ...
Nov 12, 2024
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All patients who have had a heart attack are typically treated using beta blockers. According to a Swedish study conducted earlier in 2024, this drug is unlikely to be needed for those heart patients who have normal pumping ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Older adults with heart conditions reported in a survey that their sexual health impacts their mood and well-being. However, they also noted that most health care professionals did not offer them sexual health information, ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Adding an extra hour every week of physical activity may lower the chance of developing the most common type of irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) by 11%, a new study shows.
Nov 11, 2024
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More than 1 in 5 Americans likely suffer from long COVID, a new AI-assisted review has found.
Nov 10, 2024
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Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers at the Metamor Institute, along with colleagues from Our Lady of the Lake and LSU Health-New Orleans, have recently determined that metabolic surgery on patients with heart ...
Nov 7, 2024
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An interdisciplinary study involving eight University of Cincinnati College of Medicine experts has found significant sex differences in cardiovascular outcomes in patients with kidney failure.
Nov 6, 2024
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Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis.
Nov 6, 2024
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A study by researchers at Saint Louis University shows that only one in eight patients with heart failure in the United States receive palliative care consultations within five years of diagnosis.
Nov 5, 2024
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