NIH awards grant to study how dilated cardiomyopathy progresses to heart failure
A University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix researcher was recently awarded a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health ...
Tag: Cardiomyopathy
Vutrisiran shows potential to become the new standard of care for rare heart disease
Vutrisiran significantly improved mortality, cardiovascular events and markers of disease progression in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), according ...
Heart at risk from ARDS: Inflammatory responses fuel cardiovascular complications
In a recent study published in the journal Circulation, researchers investigate the inflammatory response to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) within ...
The efficacy of the Mediterranean diet on health outcomes in adults with cancer
Cancer treatment is often associated with undue weight gain, mostly due to fat deposition. The Mediterranean diet (MED diet) may ...
Major study of 59 million Americans finds fine particulate matter from air pollution increases heart disease risks
In a recent study published in BMJ, researchers assessed exposure-response relationships between chronic fine-size particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and the ...
Blood test may help identify patients at risk for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
A new multi-center study led by doctors at Boston Medical Center and Columbia University found that having a genetic variant ...
Black patients with ICDs have higher rate of post-implant cardiac events and risk of death
Black patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have a significantly higher burden of disease than white patients with the same ...
Prenatal depression may be related to postpartum cardiovascular disease diagnosis
Individuals who were diagnosed with depression during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with cardiovascular disease within two years ...
Researchers discover a new mutation that leads to arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
Researchers from the group of Eva van Rooij in collaboration with the UMC Utrecht identified a new mutation that leads ...
Heart failure arises from mutations in distinct genes, study finds
Heart failure is a common and devastating disorder for which there is no cure. Many cardiomyopathies -;conditions that make it ...
