Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus to infect healthy ...
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Amid the stress and confusion of coronavirus shutdowns and social distancing orders, it can seem to older patients as though everything is on pause. Clinics have postponed regular office visits. Patients worry about going ...
Apr 22, 2020
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(HealthDay)—For decades, doctors have urged heart failure patients to slash their salt intake as a way to preserve their health.
Dec 28, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Many patients with heart failure might live years longer if they were on a combination of newer medications, a study suggests.
May 27, 2020
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Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Pharmacy have developed an improved pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of the most common heart rhythm disturbance—atrial fibrillation (AF). The ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Two years into the pandemic, researchers have learned a lot about how COVID-19 affects people with heart disease and stroke survivors. But like the coronavirus itself, what everyone needs to know keeps evolving.
Jan 18, 2022
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Weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide) and its diabetes-focused cousin, Ozempic, have already upended the treatment of both obesity and diabetes, with sales of both drugs skyrocketing.
Aug 26, 2023
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Forget what you thought you knew about catching COVID-19 more than once. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps evolving—and so has information about your risk of being reinfected.
Jul 20, 2022
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Heart failure patients often have trouble with thinking and depression.
Apr 5, 2019
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In work presented at the 2022 EULAR Congress, Dr. Jens Kristian Pedersen and colleagues used data from the DANBIO registry to describe the all-cause mortality risk associated with depression in patients with incident rheumatoid ...
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