Health
Fructose – too much sugar for the heart?
The impact of a high level of sugar intake on heart health will come under scrutiny this year in a new research project probing the link between fructose and diabetes.
Jul 12, 2016
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News tagged with heart muscle damage
Cardiology
Eliminating blood test may increase availability of donor hearts
A blood test that leads to the rejection of donor hearts may be unnecessary in predicting whether a heart transplant will succeed or fail, according to new research in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association ...
Jun 21, 2016
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Cardiology
Technique could help identify patients who would suffer chemo-induced heart damage
Cancer patients who receive a particular type of chemotherapy called doxorubicin run a risk of sustaining severe, lasting heart damage. But it is not possible to predict who is likely to experience this serious side effect. ...
Apr 18, 2016
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Cardiology
Stem cell trial success could lead to new heart disease therapies
The key objective of the EU-funded CARE-MI project, which was completed in September 2015, was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AlloCSC-01, a suspension of allogeneic human cardiac stem cells (CSCs) in patients who ...
Nov 25, 2015
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Cardiology
Common 'heart attack' blood test may predict future hypertension
Analysis of blood samples from more than 5,000 people suggests that a more sensitive version of a blood test long used to verify heart muscle damage from heart attacks could also identify people on their way to developing ...
Aug 26, 2015
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Cardiology
Tweaking the heart's response to injury could lead to better treatment
One of the master regulators of the heart's response to injury has been identified, thanks to a Singaporean research collaboration. This regulator could ultimately be used to assess the degree of damage in heart attack patients ...
Aug 26, 2015
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Cardiology
Transplant drug could turn the tide of heart attack damage
New research has revealed how a drug commonly used after transplant operations could limit some of the heart damage caused by a heart attack, in a study from Newcastle University.
Jul 15, 2015
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Diabetes
Scientists restore normal function in heart muscle cells of diabetic rats
Working with heart muscle cells from diabetic rats, scientists at Johns Hopkins have located what they say is the epicenter of mischief wreaked by too much blood sugar and used a sugar-gobbling enzyme to restore normal function ...
Jun 25, 2015
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Cardiology
Less extensive damage to heart muscle/therapeutic hypothermia following acute myocardial infarction
After an acute myocardial infarction, patients treated with rapid lowering of body temperature by combined cold saline infusion and endovascular cooling had less heart muscle damage and reduced incidence of heart failure. ...
Jun 9, 2015
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Cardiology
Study reveals first six months best for stimulating heart growth
In a recent issue of Science Translational Medicine, Brian Polizzotti, PhD, Bernhard Kuhn, MD, Sangita Choudhury, PhD, and colleagues affiliated with the Boston Children's Hospital's Translational Research Center report that ...
Apr 28, 2015
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