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Human embryos edited to stop disease
Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families. It potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 disorders that are passed down the generations. The US and South Korean team allowed the embryos to develop for five days before stopping the experiment.
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'Fat but fit' are at increased risk of heart disease
Carrying extra weight could raise your risk of heart attack by more than a quarter, even if you are otherwise healthy. Researchers have found that being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by up to 28 per cent compared to those with a healthy bodyweight, even if they have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
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Standing at work linked to heart disease
If you tend to do a lot of standing at work, you may want to be sitting down to read this. A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that workers who primarily stand on the job are twice as likely to have heart disease than workers who mainly sit. That puts them more at risk of getting heart disease than smokers, said Peter Smith, a scientist from the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) and lead author of the study.
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Anti-inflammatory cuts risk of heart attack.
A clinical trial of more than 10,000 heart attack patients reported today supports a novel way to protect them from a stroke or a second attack: with drugs that stop inflammation. The approach has been advanced by some scientists for years, but this is the first trial to conclusively show that it works. Cardiologists hailed it as vindication for the heart attack–inflammation link, which hadn’t been proved in people.
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A first: Drug lowers heart risks by curbing inflammation
For the first time, a drug has helped prevent heart attacks by curbing inflammation, a new and very different approach than lowering cholesterol, the focus for many years.
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Lower socioeconomic status in childhood predicts higher arterial stiffness in adulthood.
Previous studies have shown that the development of atherosclerosis begins already early in childhood and that childhood socioeconomic status predicts the risk of cardiovascular diseases far into adulthood.
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Causes, Characteristics, and Consequences of Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight in Humans
A BMI in the normal range associates with a decreased risk of cardiometabolic disease and all-cause mortality. However, not all subjects in this BMI range have this low risk. Compared to people who are of normal weight and metabolically healthy, subjects who are of normal weight but metabolically unhealthy (∼20% of the normal weight adult population) have a greater than 3-fold higher risk of all-cause mortality and/or cardiovascular events.
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Solution for heart surgery for kids.
A prototype valve grows with the patient, so doesn’t need replacing.
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Hasselt surgeon performs world first in keyhole valve replacement.
Heart surgeon Alaaddin Yilmaz has developed a technique for performing valve replacement surgery using tiny incisions, a world premiere. The procedure offers not only a major savings in costs associated with open heart surgery but also vastly improves the recovery period and the risk of complications.
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The FDA Warns That Black Licorice Can Cause Heart Problems in Adults
Reasonable people have agreed for decades that black licorice is the most disgusting, repulsive candy on the planet.
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Drug 'melts away' fat inside arteries
A new drug being trialled for treating breast cancer and diabetes has been shown to 'melt away' the fat inside arteries that can cause heart attacks and strokes. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen, using pre-clinical mouse models, showed that just a single dose of the drug (Trodusquemine) completely reversed the effects of a disease that causes a host of heart problems.
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A broken heart can cause as much damage as a heart attack
Severe emotional stress can prompt a sudden heart condition that poses the same sort of long-term damage as a heart attack, new research has found. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy – or “broken heart syndrome” - affects at least 3,000 people in the UK and is typically triggered by traumatic life events such as bereavement. During an attack, the heart muscle weakens to the point where it can no longer function as effectively.
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Fully Functioning Artificial Human Heart Muscle Developed
Duke University researchers say they have created an artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major step toward the end goal of repairing dead heart muscle in human patients, the team adds.
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Baby has heart put back inside chest
A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived after surgery at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who has no breastbone, was delivered three weeks ago by Caesarean section. She has had three operations to place her heart back in her chest. The condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare with only a few cases per million births, of which most are stillborn.
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Renowned surgeon opens up about what really causes heart disease.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. But It’s Not Working! These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
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Cardiovascular effects of commonly used ophthalmic medications.
This article will review the cardiovascular and systemic side effects of commonly prescribed topical ocular medications (eye drops) and will describe important contraindications to their use in patients with cardiovascular disease.
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Computer Generated Cross Section 3d Model of Heart. #science
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Tomorrow’s Heart Drugs Might Target Gut Microbes
If your cholesterol levels are high, your doctor might prescribe you a statin, a drug that blocks one of the enzymes involved in creating cholesterol. But in the future, she might also prescribe a second drug that technically doesn’t target your body at all. Instead, it would manipulate the microbes in your gut. Each of us is home to trillions of bacteria and other microbes—a teeming mass collectively known as the microbiome.
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Stunned CPR hero receives text from heart attack victim he thought had died
A FIREFIGHTER was stunned when he received a thank-you text – from a man he thought had died. Chris Kendall performed CPR on heart attack victim Allan Hainey for 15 minutes but he was told later by police that Allan had passed away. Five months later, Chris, 32, got a text from Allan thanking him for saving his life.
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A Heart Risk Factor Even Doctors Know Little About
Up to one in five Americans have high levels of lipoprotein(a) in their blood, putting them at risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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