Cardiovascular Diseases: News and Research on Cardiomegaly

MeSH tree: C14.280.195

AI tool mimics radiologist gaze for chest X-ray analysis

Artificial intelligence can scan a chest X-ray and diagnose if an abnormality is fluid in the lungs, an enlarged heart or cancer. But being right is not enough, said Ngan Le, a University of Arkansas assistant professor of ...

Dietary supplement shown to restore cardiac function

A dietary supplement developed at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has been found to stop the progression of heart failure in animal models, providing further evidence of the supplement's efficacy for potential use ...

A disrupted protein recycling process can harm heart health

A disrupted protein degradation process in heart muscle cells can lead to a range of severe heart diseases. In the case of dilated cardiomyopathy, a pathological enlargement of the heart chambers, researchers at the Max Planck ...

Smoking from age 10 tied to heart damage by mid-20s

The majority of children who started smoking tobacco at age 10 years or in their later teens continued to smoke until their mid-twenties. Continuous smoking from childhood significantly increased the risk of premature heart ...

New genetic explanation for heart condition revealed

A potentially life-changing heart condition, dilated cardiomyopathy, can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single "aberrant" genetic variant, as was previously thought, ...

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