Cardiovascular Diseases: News and Research on Cardiomyopathies

MeSH tree: C14.280.238

Maternal deaths from cardiovascular causes on the rise in US

The rate of maternal mortality related to cardiovascular causes more than doubled between 1999 and 2022 in the United States, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific ...

Demystifying a genetic disease of the heart muscle

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the primary causes of sudden death ...

Studies reveal new genetic roots of atrial fibrillation

Two studies led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Mass General Brigham have greatly expanded the number of known genetic variants that boost the risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart ...

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