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Finding time to exercise each day is a challenge for many people, but a new study of nearly 15,000 men and women found that adding as little as five minutes of activity to get your heart rate up is enough to lower blood pressure.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading 5 minutes of extra activity per day brings marked heart health benefits
Scarring of heart tissue can be slowed but not stopped, and can lead to heart failure. But a new study has shown that an existing immunotherapy could stop scar tissue formation after heart attacks.Continue ReadingCategory: Heart Disease, Illnesses and … Continue reading Immunotherapy prevents heart attacks progressing to heart failure
A tiny chip with a unique surface can accurately detect the blood biomarkers of a heart attack within minutes, a fraction of the time taken by current methods, even if they’re at very low concentrations. The researchers behind the device see it being u… Continue reading At-home heart attack detector gives results in minutes, not hours
Sticky plaques building up on the walls of your blood vessels can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Now, a new nanoparticle infusion therapy has been found to break down these plaques safely in tests in pigs.Continue ReadingCategory: Heart Disease, Il… Continue reading Nanoparticle infusion therapy breaks down plaques in arteries
Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by more than two-and-a-half times, according to a new study.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading New defib placement more than doubles odds of surviving cardiac arrest
A new injectable, temporary pacemaker could help correct a heart arrhythmia in an emergency. This nanoparticle gel can regulate the heart’s electrical signals for up to five days before dissolving harmlessly in the body.Continue ReadingCategory: Medica… Continue reading Injectable pacemaker regulates heartbeat for 5 days then dissolves
Smoking, obesity, and stress. They’re all common causes of damaging cardiac events. However, a just-published study says a new culprit should be added to the list of the risks that can hurt our hearts: constipation.Continue ReadingCategory: Health &… Continue reading Constipation linked to significantly elevated risk of cardiac events
It turns out that blasting people with shockwaves during open-heart surgery is a really good idea. That’s what researchers found who used the technique to reactivate heart cells and improve the post-op lives of patients in a groundbreaking study.Contin… Continue reading Shockwave-shooting ‘space hairdryer’ regrows heart tissue in patients
Even brief periods of anger caused by triggering memories can negatively impact our blood vessels’ ability to relax. That’s the finding of a new study that could have implications on how we look at heart attack and stroke risk.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Angry? Your blood vessels pay the price, new study demonstrates
Over the first half of the 20th century the world saw growing rates of heart disease mortality. From the 1920s to the 1960s more and more people were dying from heart attacks. It was described as an epidemic of heart disease. But in the mid-1960s heart… Continue reading Has COVID set us up for a major heart disease epidemic? It’s happened before