British hospitals introduce treatment for #heartFailure that cuts deaths by 62%
‘Gamechanger’ brought in after success of trial offering larger doses of drugs within first two weeks of treatment
funny that the headlines tend to use "British hospitals" for good news, but #NHS for bad news ...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/hospitals-britain-heart-failure-treatment #science #medicine
https://www.europesays.com/uk/15237/ Common-variant and rare-variant genetic architecture of heart failure across the allele-frequency spectrum #Agriculture #AnimalGeneticsAndGenomics #Biomedicine #CancerResearch #GeneFunction #general #Genetics #GeneticsResearch #GenomeWideAssociationStudies #HeartFailure #HumanGenetics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
Analysis of data from almost 30,000 older U.S. adults found a steep decline in cognitive function immediately following heart failure, with continued decline in following years, amounting to aging 10 years in just 7 years.
Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-cognitive-decline-sooner-people-heart.html
Original paper (not open access): https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837
seven years, not the five years they told me when I finished radiation. Last April, I was diagnosed with #HeartFailure & #AFib & when I was released from the hospital after two weeks in the hospital, they said I had suffered a kidney injury. Now it's kidney disease. I was in and out of the
What’s Happening in France in Diet Drug Mediator Scandal? https://www.diningandcooking.com/1992421/whats-happening-in-france-in-diet-drug-mediator-scandal/ #CardiometabolicRisk #crime #criminal #DiabetesMellitusType2 #DiabetesMellitusTypeIi #diet #ethics #francais #france #fraud #fraudulent #French #FrenchDiet #Grant #hands #heart #HeartFailure #Hospitals #hypertension #injury #Insurance(malpractice) #LipidManagement #lipids #malpractice #MalpracticeInsurance #PulmonaryHypertension #scandal #scandalous #toxicology #Type2Diabetes #ValvularHeartDisease #WoundManagement
Eating from #plastic #takeout containers can increase #heartfailure risk – study
A new study suggests that frequent consumption of food from plastic takeout containers significantly increases the risk of congestive heart failure due to gut biome changes that trigger inflammation and circulatory damage.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/plastic-food-containers-heart-failure
https://www.europesays.com/1951560/ Emory team takes heart disease research to the International Space Station #cancer #Cell #Heart #HeartDisease #HeartFailure #Laboratory #Muscle #research #space #Transplant
https://www.europesays.com/1941939/ External validation of artificial intelligence for detection of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #diagnosis #Echocardiography #HeartFailure #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #multidisciplinary #science
Mediterranean diet significantly lowers heart failure risk, especially in women https://www.diningandcooking.com/1965592/mediterranean-diet-significantly-lowers-heart-failure-risk-especially-in-women/ ##inflammation #AntiInflammatory #CardiovascularDisease #diet #heart #HeartFailure #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #Mortality #nutrition #OliveOil #OxidativeStress #Research #stress
Mediterranean diet lowers risk in women https://www.diningandcooking.com/1965210/mediterranean-diet-lowers-risk-in-women/ #HeartFailure #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet
Titanium Device as a Permanent Replacement for a Human Heart
Use of “BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart”, a titanium metal device has enabled the longest successful bridge to heart transplant lasting over three...........
#Artificialheart #BiVACOR #BiVACORTAH #Cardiacfailure #CCF #congestivecardiacfailure #congestiveheartfailure #Heartfailure #TotalArtificialHeart
Umesh Prasad
Older individuals (≥65 years) who had an exercise habit prior to hospitalization for heart failure had a 25% lower risk of dying in the two years following hospitalization.
Summary: https://scienceblog.com/555386/exercise-before-heart-failure-hospitalization-could-be-your-lifeline
Original paper (not open access): https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf069/8023331
I'll have to read more - or better - or something. I was diagnosed with #ADHD a couple years ago. I was put on meds & it seemed to help, but when I got #HeartFailure & #Afib diagnoses, I stopped taking the stimulant I was on. That actually gave me a chance to see how much the med had been helping me
