Raj Makkar, MD, Cedars-Sinai’s vice president of Cardiovascular Innovation and Intervention and the study’s senior author. Credit: Cedars-Sinai Cedars-Sinai investigators are experienced in the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement…
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HEART-FID trial finds no significant benefit from ferric carboxymaltose in heart failure patient outcomes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A trial led by the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, has investigated the long-term safety and efficacy of supplementing heart failure patients with iron. In a…
Modifiable risk factors found to be responsible for half of cardiovascular diseases
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists of the Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium under the auspices of the Department of Cardiology at the University Heart & Vascular Center of the Medical Center…
You can save a cardiac arrest victim’s life even if an ambulance arrives in two minutes, research suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at…
Sedentary time in children linked with heart damage in young adulthood
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hours of inactivity during childhood could be setting the stage for heart attacks and strokes later in life, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023.…
Keep fit to avoid heart rhythm disorder and stroke
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study in more than 15,000 people has found that physical fitness is linked with a lower likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation and stroke. The research…
A simple mouth rinse could spot early heart disease risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What if we could identify the earliest warning signs of cardiovascular disease from a simple saliva sample? Scientists think they have found a way to do…
Recreational drugs detected in more than 1 in 10 cardiac intensive care patients
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recreational drug use may be a factor in a significant proportion of admissions to cardiac intensive care, with various substances detected in 1 in 10 such…
Novel vaccine may hold key to prevent or reduce the impact of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A novel vaccine that targets inflamed brain cells associated with Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to potentially preventing or modifying the course of the disease,…
New study finds the prealbumin gene alone is insufficient for diagnosis of heart failure
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new multi-center study led by doctors at Boston Medical Center and Columbia University found that having a genetic variant in the prealbumin gene alone is…
