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High dietary potassium and low sodium can help improve risk factors for heart, kidney disease

Reducing sodium in the diet has been recommended to lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease.

21 Feb 2017

Supervised exercise training at moderate intensity improves prognosis for heart failure

Contrary to what was previously assumed, physical exercise does not lead to harmful ventricular enlargement.

21 Feb 2017

Higher EPA and DHA omega-3 levels linked to lower risk of death in postmenopausal women

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology found that higher levels of EPA and DHA omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in red blood cells were associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality in postmenopausal women.

21 Feb 2017

Study could help doctors to better predict development of cardiovascular disease at earlier stage

Screening methods for cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes could be improved by measuring different biological signposts to those currently being tested, a new study led by researchers from King's College London suggests.

21 Feb 2017

Cedars-Sinai researchers move closer to developing biological pacemaker with new $3 million NIH grant

With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators are moving closer to their goal of developing a biological pacemaker that can treat patients afflicted with slow heartbeats.

21 Feb 2017

Scientists unlock heart-protective benefits of soy

A product of digesting a micronutrient found in soy may hold the key to why some people seem to derive a heart-protective benefit from eating soy foods, while others do not, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health-led study discovered.

21 Feb 2017

Research may show new ways to repress inflammation at outset

Researchers at the University of Tübingen, working with colleagues in other parts of Germany and in the United States, have identified an enzyme as a kind of biological gauge regulating inflammation in the human body.

21 Feb 2017

Rapid patient recruitment and reduced trial costs: is LDS the answer?

LDS stands for Linked Database System, which essentially describes what it does. Our LDS technology uses multiple sources of information from hospitals, GPs and pharmacies. However in the future this information could also come from other health data sources e.g. your smartphone, Fitbit etc.

21 Feb 2017

Medication adherence interventions can help avoid hospitalizations for heart disease patients

Poor adherence to medication regimens is a common problem among patients with cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, and heart failure. Poor adherence is one reason mortality rates among those patients remain high.

21 Feb 2017

Long-term heavy alcohol drinking habits may prematurely age arteries, study finds

Heavy alcohol drinking habits over the years may prematurely age arteries, especially in men, putting them at an increased risk for heart disease, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

21 Feb 2017

Transradial, same-day PCIs could save $300 million each year, research shows

If hospitals can perform more transradial, same-day percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCIs, not only will patients benefit because it is associated with have less complications, but collectively, hospitals across the U.S. could save $300 million each year, according to research published today in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

21 Feb 2017

New book unravels secret, often misunderstood history of self-harm

Taking the reader from the Victorian era to modern Britain, Psyche on the Skin challenges the idea that self-harm is a phenomenon that can be attributed to 'how we live now'.

20 Feb 2017

UPM researchers measure energy expenditure in different training programs

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have calculated for the first time the real energy expenditure in different training programs, including both aerobic and anaerobic contribution.

20 Feb 2017

Study: Gastric band surgery has major benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes

A long-term study by Monash University researchers - the first of its kind - has found that gastric band surgery has significant benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have focused on obese people.

20 Feb 2017

Upstate opens new public cord blood bank in New York

Upstate Medical University opens the Upstate Cord Blood Bank, only the second public cord blood bank in New York and one of only 32 in the US.

20 Feb 2017

MU professor develops mandatory medical school curriculum about indigenous health

Of all racial minorities, Native Americans have the most dramatic health inequalities in the U.S., including significantly higher rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, Type 2 diabetes and substance abuse.

17 Feb 2017

Researchers explore how patients with COPD, heart failure and heart attack fared in ICU

Does a stay in the intensive care unit give patients a better chance of surviving a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or heart failure flare-up or even a heart attack, compared with care in another type of hospital unit? Unless a patient is clearly critically ill, the answer may be no, according to University of Michigan researchers who analyzed more than 1.5 million Medicare records.

17 Feb 2017

Exclusion from virtual group has negative impact on real-life social behaviour, research shows

In this age of highly realistic computer games and increasingly popular social networks, social exclusion in virtual worlds is becoming more and more socially significant, as is demonstrated by the growing number of "cyber mobbing" cases.

17 Feb 2017

Researchers create novel model that reveals cellular, molecular events driving leukemia progression

Mount Sinai researchers have created a novel model that shows the step-by-step progression from normal blood cells to leukemia and its precursor diseases, creating replicas of the stages of the disease to test the efficacy of therapeutic interventions at each stage, according to a study to be published in Cell Stem Cell.

16 Feb 2017

World's largest GWAS on proteomics uncovers molecular mechanisms of complex diseases

The Helmholtz Zentrum München has published results of the largest genome-wide association study on proteomics to date.

16 Feb 2017

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

High dietary potassium and low sodium can help improve risk factors for heart, kidney disease

Supervised exercise training at moderate intensity improves prognosis for heart failure

Higher EPA and DHA omega-3 levels linked to lower risk of death in postmenopausal women

Study could help doctors to better predict development of cardiovascular disease at earlier stage

Cedars-Sinai researchers move closer to developing biological pacemaker with new $3 million NIH grant

Scientists unlock heart-protective benefits of soy

Research may show new ways to repress inflammation at outset

Rapid patient recruitment and reduced trial costs: is LDS the answer?

Medication adherence interventions can help avoid hospitalizations for heart disease patients

Long-term heavy alcohol drinking habits may prematurely age arteries, study finds

Transradial, same-day PCIs could save $300 million each year, research shows

New book unravels secret, often misunderstood history of self-harm

UPM researchers measure energy expenditure in different training programs

Study: Gastric band surgery has major benefits for moderately overweight people with type 2 diabetes

Upstate opens new public cord blood bank in New York

MU professor develops mandatory medical school curriculum about indigenous health

Researchers explore how patients with COPD, heart failure and heart attack fared in ICU

Exclusion from virtual group has negative impact on real-life social behaviour, research shows

Researchers create novel model that reveals cellular, molecular events driving leukemia progression

World's largest GWAS on proteomics uncovers molecular mechanisms of complex diseases

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Heart Disease News and Research

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Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit eBook

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