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The latest cardiology news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Clinical Use of Natriuretic Peptide Webinar
Heart failure is the fastest rising diagnostic condition in modern cardiology today. Accurate heart failure diagnosis is trending more and more toward clinical decisions based on lab results including natriuretic peptide testing.
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| | | | |  Step aside carrots, onions and broccoli. The newest heart-healthy vegetable could be a gigantic, record-setting radish. In a study appearing in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists report that compounds found in the Sakurajima Daikon, or "monster," radish could help protect coronary blood vessels and potentially prevent heart disease and stroke. | | | | |  Galectins attach to other proteins via the carbohydrates on their surfaces (sugar-binding proteins). As such they impact on a range of processes in the cell associated with a number of diseases, including heart disease and breast cancer – the most common cancer in women worldwide, with 1.7 million new cases diagnosed in 2012 alone. | | | | |  Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have shed light on an epigenetic reprogramming mechanism that underlies the development of ischemic cardiomyopathy. | | | | |  Research has shown that people who sleep for more than eight hours each night are at a greater risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease than people who sleep for seven hours or less. | |
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