People who have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation that is treated with a procedure called catheter ablation may have a reduced risk of dementia compared to those who are treated with medication alone. The ...
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Daytime naps longer than a half-hour appear to nearly double a person's risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a new study reports.
Apr 13, 2023
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A study aiming to develop and test a machine learning model to predict cardiovascular disease using indicators of oral infections was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the AADOCR, held in conjunction with ...
Mar 17, 2023
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Periodontitis, a gum disease, can lead to a litany of dental issues from bad breath to bleeding and lost teeth. Now, researchers at Hiroshima University have found that it could be connected to even more severe problems elsewhere ...
Jan 27, 2023
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A team of researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has found that it is possible in mice to protect the heart from ischemia-reperfusion using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system. In their paper published ...
High levels of uric acid in midlife may significantly raise the risk for a serious type of irregular heartbeat in the decades that follow, even in people without traditional risk factors, new research shows.
Jan 12, 2023
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Atrial fibrillation, one of the most common types of heart arrhythmias, has long been considered more common in men.
Dec 8, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a "heart attack on a chip," a device that could one day serve as a testbed to develop new heart drugs ...
Dec 7, 2022
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A large-scale comparison of direct oral anticoagulants (blood thinners), commonly prescribed for irregular heartbeats, has identified the drug associated with the lowest risk of bleeding, in a new study led by UCL researchers.
Oct 31, 2022
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An analysis of over 1.3 million young Asian American adults hospitalized for atrial fibrillation (or AFib) found a significant, steady increase in the prevalence of obesity and other modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) ...
Oct 31, 2022
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