Feature Channels: Heart Disease

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A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai.

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Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far.

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Heart failure is a potentially urgent health concern for young adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) that is often overlooked and undertreated, even as hospitalizations for this condition continue to rise.

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A new study from the UW found that unfiltered air from rush-hour traffic significantly increased passengers’ blood pressure, both while in the car and up to 24 hours later. 

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A new study finds that alcohol consumption may have counteractive effects on cardiovascular disease risk, depending on the biological presence of certain circulating metabolites—molecules that are produced during or after a substance is metabolized and studied as biomarkers of many diseases.

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Si usted corre el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca, el equipo de atención médica podría utilizar la herramienta de la ecuación de cohorte agrupada para determinar su riesgo a largo plazo y si la administración de estatinas (medicamentos para reducir el colesterol) es una buena opción.

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Se você está sob o risco de ter uma doença cardíaca, a equipe de cuidados médicos pode usar a ferramenta de equação de coorte agrupada (PCE) para determinar o seu risco de longo prazo, e se a administração de estatinas (medicamentos para reduzir o colesterol) é uma boa opção.

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This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ transplant—this time, a kidney.

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Stay informed! Keep up with the latest research on the COVID-19 virus in the Coronavirus channel on Newswise.

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The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), in conjunction with the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2023 conference, CRF's annual scientific symposium, announced today the launch of the CRF Scientific Excellence Top 10 (SET-10), a new global annual ranking recognizing academic contributions to interventional cardiovascular medicine.

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Published just before World Diabetes Day, work by Dr. May Faraj, director of the Research Unit on Nutrition, Lipoproteins and Cardiometabolic Diseases at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and full professor at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Montreal, highlight a new mechanism and a new role for LDL – commonly called bad cholesterol – in the development of type 2 diabetes, LDL already being involved in cardiovascular diseases in the human.

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The world’s total population is expected to reach 9.9 billion by 2050. This rapid increase in population is boosting the demand for agriculture to cater for the increased demand. Below are some of the latest research and features on agriculture and farming in the Agriculture channel on Newswise.

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Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently published a paper in the journal Pediatrics showing that many children treated for MIS-C had some degree of cardiac injury.

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One University of Kentucky researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The heart. The research team has microscopically mapped out part of the heart. To put this microscopic level into perspective, if the heart is a continent, UK's Kenneth S. Campbell and fellow researchers are looking at single strands of hair.

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One University of Kentucky researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The heart. Kenneth S. Campbell, Ph.D., the director of translational research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the UK College of Medicine, helped map out an important part of the heart on a molecular level. The study titled “Cryo-EM structure of the human cardiac myosin filament” was published online in the prestigious journal Nature earlier this month.

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Sudden cardiac arrest remains a deadly and complex condition, but investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have discovered a new method—using a widely available cardiovascular test—for predicting the heart malfunction.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles hosted a special educational symposium on “Aortic Valve Stenosis: From Fetus to Adult” at the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington, D.C.

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Simple changes in patient ventilation procedures during out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could lead to a dramatic improvement in cardiac arrest survival rates, according to a landmark study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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A four-year, $2.6 million grant to study circadian rhythm and novel therapies to protect the heart during a heart attack or cardiac surgery has been awarded to UTHealth Houston by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Cardiologists Carlos Ince, M.D., FACC, and M. Kate Elfrey, D.O., both of The Heart Center at Mercy, are the featured guests on Mercy Medical Center’s monthly talk show, “Medoscopy,” airing Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 15th and 16th at 5:30 p.m. EST.

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Analyses led by Corinne Keet, MD, PhD, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, of two longitudinal studies reveal how an increased level of an antibody called immunoglobin (IgE) to cow’s milk is associated to cardiovascular-related death.

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Measuring blood pressure while patients are standing rather than sitting may improve the accuracy of readings, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report. Their findings, published in Scientific Reports, could lead to significant improvements in early detection of high blood pressure in healthy adults.

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A angina, um desconforto no peito causado pela redução do fluxo sanguíneo para o coração, é um sintoma comum de doença arterial coronariana.

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La angina, un malestar en el pecho causado por la reducción del flujo sanguíneo al corazón, es un síntoma común de enfermedad de las arterias coronarias.

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Scientists developed synthetic melanin cream that can heal skin damage and promote repair. It works by scavenging free radicals that are produced by injured skin.

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Being taller during the course of a person’s lifetime could protect against heart disease and stroke in later life, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The research, which analysed height and genetic data on over 454,000 individuals, is published in the pre-print publication* medRxiv.

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Investigators from Cedars-Sinai have made two important discoveries about fiber and the gut microbiome in patients with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV.

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Angina, chest discomfort caused by reduced blood flow to the heart, is a common symptom of coronary artery disease. There is good news and bad news, explains Stephen Brecker, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London.

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A traditional Chinese medicine whose name means “to open the network of the heart” reduced the risk of heart attacks, deaths, and other major cardiovascular complications for at least a year after a first heart attack, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The findings, published in JAMA, reveal the promise of this compound, one of the first traditional Chinese medicines tested in a large-scale, Western-style clinical trial.

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She was five days postpartum. Her first child was a perfect baby girl. What was supposed to be among the happiest times in Marisa Dominguez’s life was, instead, the scariest.

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Caminar es una forma económica de hacer ejercicio que pueden practicar muchas personas con diversas capacidades y edades. ¿Qué se puede decir de los 10 000 pasos diarios que recomiendan muchas aplicaciones para estar en forma?

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A caminhada é uma forma econômica de fazer exercícios que pode ser praticada por muitas pessoas com diversas habilidades e idades. O que podemos dizer sobre os 10 mil passos diários recomendados pelos aplicativos fitness?

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Targeting NETs could reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke for diabetic patients

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Artificial intelligence (AI) from patient electrocardiograms (ECGs) may be an innovative solution to enhance heart disease risk assessment.

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Patients with a dysfunctional aortic heart valve who received a new, prosthetic valve through a minimally invasive procedure had similar outcomes at five years as those who underwent open-heart surgery, a new study shows.

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Read the latest research news on air pollution, nanoplastics, waterborne illnesses and more in the Pollution channel on Newswise.