Heart Disease News

January 19, 2025

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Excess Weight Gain in First Trimester Associated With Fetal Fat Accumulation

Jan. 17, 2025 — Fetuses of pregnant people who gained excess weight in the first trimester of pregnancy show signs of excess fat distribution in the upper arm and in the abdomen, according to a new study. These ...

How Improving Education Could Close Maternal Heart Health Gaps

Jan. 15, 2025 — Research has established a clear link between racial and ethnic disparities in maternal heart health and higher risks of preterm birth, preeclampsia and cardiovascular issues for Black and Hispanic mothers and their ...

Link Between Gene Duplications and Deletions Within Chromosome Region and Nonsyndromic Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease

Jan. 15, 2025 — Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve ...

Why More Men Than Women Are Diagnosed With Deadly Heart Disease

Jan. 10, 2025 — Women may be missing a diagnosis of a potentially deadly heart condition due to guidelines that don't account for natural differences in sex and body ...

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Exposure to Aircraft Noise Linked to Worse Heart Function

Jan. 8, 2025 — People who live close to airports and are exposed to high aircraft noise levels could be at greater risk of poor heart function, increasing the likelihood of heart attacks, life-threatening heart ...

Morning Coffee May Protect the Heart Better Than All-Day Coffee Drinking

Jan. 7, 2025 — People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality risk compared to all-day coffee drinkers, according to new ...

Cell-Based Therapy Improves Outcomes in a Pig Model of Heart Attacks

Jan. 7, 2025 — In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, ...

Study Challenges Traditional Risk Factors for Brain Health in the Oldest-Old

Jan. 7, 2025 — A study has found cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which are known to contribute to brain blood vessel damage in ...

New Study Pinpoints Pivotal Period for Improving Cardiovascular Health in Children

Dec. 18, 2024 — A new study sheds light on the trajectory of cardiovascular health (CVH) early in life, which may contribute to CVH disparities in adulthood. Across ...

Zebrafish Protein Unlocks Dormant Genes for Heart Repair

Jan. 2, 2025 — Researchers have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this ...

First Dual Chamber Leadless Pacemaker Implanted in a Child

Dec. 20, 2024 — Pediatric cardiologists have implanted a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a ...

Can the Heart Heal Itself? New Study Says It Can

Dec. 20, 2024 — Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart ...

Scientists Make Surprising Discovery Pinpointing When Good Cholesterol Becomes Harmful

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that certain components of so-called 'good' cholesterol -- high-density lipoproteins (HDL) -- may be associated with an ...

Overactive Cells Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers studied oxygen treatment as a potential therapy to target specific cells linked to the development of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes ...

Patients With Heart Disease May Be at Increased Risk for Advanced Breast Cancer

Jan. 2, 2025 — Patients diagnosed with late-stage or metastatic breast cancer have a statistically significant increased risk of pre-diagnosis cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to those with early-stage cancer ...

Elucidating the Neural Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Cardiovascular Responses

Dec. 16, 2024 — The lateral habenula is a brain region associated with behavioral changes and autonomic responses during psychological stress. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified the involvement ...

Atrial Fibrillation: A Review

Dec. 16, 2024 — In the U.S., atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime. Significant ...

Potential Target to Address a Severe Heart Disease in Diabetic Patients

Dec. 12, 2024 — Some patients with diabetes develop a serious condition known as diabetic cardiomyopathy, which is slow and cannot be directly attributed to hypertension or other cardiovascular disorders. This often ...

Persistent Tobacco Smoking from Childhood May Cause Heart Damage by the Mid-Twenties

Dec. 11, 2024 — The majority of children who started smoking tobacco at age 10 years or in their later teens continued to smoke until their mid-twenties. Continuous smoking from childhood significantly increased the ...

New Insights About How 'Bad' Cholesterol Works in the Body

Dec. 11, 2024 — Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how 'bad' cholesterol, known as low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol or LDL-C, builds up in the body. The researchers were ...

Analysis Reveals an Additional Mechanism Behind Statin Therapy's Heart-Related Benefits in People With HIV

Dec. 11, 2024 — Investigators who previously found that a daily statin pill helps prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with HIV have now discovered a potential mechanism that may help to stabilize plaques and ...

New Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Large Animal Model

Dec. 10, 2024 — In a single IV injection, a gene therapy targeting cBIN1 can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the ...

Scientists Identify a Probable Contributor to Weakness of the Aorta in People With Genetic Disorder

Dec. 9, 2024 — Studying the cells of people and genetically engineered mice, scientists say they have uncovered a potential reason why patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder, ...

AI-Enabled Analysis of Images Meant to Catch One Disease Can Reveal Others

Dec. 6, 2024 — With the help of an AI tool, computed tomography (CT) scans taken originally to look for tumors or bleeding or infections, also revealed calcium buildup in arteries, a sign of worsening ...

Research Study Shows the Cost-Effectiveness of AI-Enhanced Heart Failure Screening

Dec. 4, 2024 — Earlier research showed that primary care clinicians using AI-ECG tools identified more unknown cases of a weak heart pump, also called low ejection fraction, than without AI. New study findings ...

Study Exposes Link Between Genetic Risk of Depression and Heart Disease in Women

Dec. 4, 2024 — Women who have a high genetic risk of depression are more likely to develop heart disease, researchers have ...

The Heart Has Its Own 'Brain'

Dec. 4, 2024 — New research shows that the heart has a mini-brain -- its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat. A better understanding of this system, which is much more diverse and complex than previously ...

Tiny, Daily Bursts of Vigorous Incidental Physical Activity Could Almost Halve Cardiovascular Risk in Middle-Aged Women

Dec. 3, 2024 — An average of four minutes of incidental vigorous physical activity a day could almost halve the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, for middle-aged women who do not engage in ...

Trials and Tribulations of Cell Therapy for Heart Failure, an Update on Ongoing Trials

Dec. 2, 2024 — A critical review of cell-based and cell product-based therapies for the treatment of heart failure details 20 years of completed and ongoing clinical trials. While none has yet gained medical ...

Higher Ratio of Plant Protein to Animal Protein May Improve Heart Health

Dec. 2, 2024 — Eating a diet with a higher ratio of plant-based protein to animal-based protein may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a new study. ...

Newfound Mechanism May Explain Why Some Cancer Treatments Boost Risk of Heart Disease

Dec. 2, 2024 — A cancer therapy that prompts the body's immune defenses against viruses and bacteria to attack tumors can make patients more vulnerable to heart attack and stroke. A possible explanation for ...

Different Menopausal Hormone Treatments Pose Different Risks

Nov. 27, 2024 — Researchers have analysed the effects of seven different hormone treatments for menopausal symptoms on the risk of blood clots, stroke and heart attack. The study, which involved around one million ...

World's Most Common Heart Valve Disease Linked to Insulin Resistance in Large National Study

Nov. 27, 2024 — A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the development of the world's most common heart valve disease -- aortic stenosis ...

Recovery of Testing for Heart Disease Risk Factors Post-COVID Remains Patchy

Nov. 26, 2024 — Routine screening to detect risk factors for heart disease dropped sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, and some key measurements, such as blood pressure readings, may still lag behind ...