Cardiovascular Diseases: News and Research on Cardiomegaly

MeSH tree: C14.280.195

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, ...

Human and other primate hearts differ genetically, says study

A team at the Hübner and Diecke Labs at the Max Delbrück Center has shown how human and non-human primate hearts differ genetically. The study, published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, reveals evolutionary adaptations ...

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