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Cardiology

Your genes determine how your heart rate responds to exercise

Your genes can determine how your heart rate and blood pressure respond to exercise—and may act as an early warning of future problems with your heart or blood vessels—according to new research published in The Journal ...

Cardiology

Why do we develop high blood pressure?

Abnormally high blood pressure, or hypertension, may be related to changes in brain activity and blood flow early in life. That's according to a study conducted on a rat model of high blood pressure, published in Experimental ...

Oncology & Cancer

The effect of acute exercise in humans on cancer cell growth

New research presented at The Physiological Society's Annual Conference Physiology 2021 shows that molecules released into the bloodstream during exercise (such as small proteins) can act directly on bowel cancer cells to ...

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