HIV News - Heart Issues And HIV Nov 29, 2022 5 days ago
HIV News: A new study review led by researchers from Kings College London British Heart Foundation Centre, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences -UK has found that HIV infections increase risk of cardiovascular issues!
The study team warned that HIV-associated cardiovascular disease is increasing in prevalence, but its mechanisms remain poorly understood.
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COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Induced Isolated Diastolic Hypertension -IDH Nov 26, 2022 8 days ago
COVID-19 News: In the last few months, based on data that we have been collating from various Long COVID clinics and also small research groups involved in Post COVID medical issues, it has been found that many post-COVID patients tend to be displaying a unique condition that is termed as Isolated Diastolic Hypertension or IDH.
Isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH) is defined as diastolic...
Source: COVID-19 News - OAS Genes - Heart Failure Oct 31, 2022 1 month ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Shanxi Medical University – China have found that the OAS genes plays a key role in COVID-19 induced heart failure.
According to the study team, SARS-CoV-2 infections can damage the heart and lead to heart failure (HF) and even cardiac death. The 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS) gene family encode interferon (IFN)-induced antiviral protei...
Source: COVID-19 News - Risk Of Venous Thromboembolism Oct 28, 2022 1 month ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Queen Mary University of London – United Kingdom has found that even those who simply contracted mild SARS-CoV-2 infections had a higher risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), a term referring to blood clots in the veins, is an underdiagnosed and serious, yet preventable medical condition that can...
Source: Medical News - Chronic Heart Failure - COVID-19 Oct 25, 2022 1 month ago
A new study involving murine models by researchers from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo-Japan has found that 5-ALA (of 5-aminolevulinic acid) could reverse or prevent mitochondrial dysfunction that causes chromic heart failure!
5-Aminolevulinic acid is a porphyrin precursor used to treat actinic keratosis of the face, scalp, and upper extremities, as well as to vi...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University Of Michigan-USA has found that cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as age, smoking and diabetes increase the risk of COVID-19 mortality and not preexisting cardiovascular disease itself!
The study findings showed that the occurrence of myocardial injury, regardless of preexisting CVD, and its association with outcomes...
Source: Pharma News - Metformin - Atrial Fibrillation Oct 12, 2022 2 months ago
A new study by researcher from Cleveland Clinic, Ohio-USA And Northwestern University-Illinois-USA has found that the common generic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes..metformin, can be used to treat atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots in the heart. AF increases the risk of stroke, heart failure...
Cardiology News: A new study led by researcher from Johns Hopkins University along with support from researchers at University of Pennsylvania has found that fat intermingling with heart scar tissue triggers ventricular arrhythmias that can be fatal!
Infiltrating adipose tissue (inFAT) has been recently found to co-localize with scar in infarcted hearts and may contribute to ventricular a...
Source: Cardiology Updates Oct 07, 2022 2 months ago
Cardiology Updates: Researchers from the McAllister Heart Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – USA have discovered that the protein Ascl1 which is a neuronal factor is capable of healing damaged heart muscles.
The approach of direct reprogramming has revolutionized the fields of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.
Direct reprogramming means t...
Source: Medical News -Cardiac Issues -Mild COVID Oct 06, 2022 2 months ago
Despite numerous warnings and even media coverage of studies regarding the long-term effects of COVID-19 on heart health, many people are still either not taking precautions to not get infected with the virus or to go for regular heart screenings after a SARS-CoV-2 infection even if it mild.
Considering that excess deaths related to COVID-19 involving heart failures is rising exponentiall...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 -Heart Failure Sep 30, 2022 2 months ago
A new study led by researchers from University of Queensland, Brisbane-Australia has found that unlike the influenza virus that only causes inflammation of the heart cells and tissues, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus goes even much further in that it also attacks the DNA of various heart cells!
This new discovery adds to many reasons as to why we are witnessing a high number of deaths in COVID...
Source: Medical News - Blood Clots -SARS-CoV-2 Sep 21, 2022 2 months ago
A British new study by researchers from the University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Swansea University, National Health Service Digital- Leeds, University College London, King’s College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Leicester, University of Edinburgh and the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre has found that blood cl...
Source: Medical News -NSAIDs-Heart Failure Sep 07, 2022 3 months ago
A new study by Danish researchers the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark has found that the usages of common NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like Ibuprofen and Diclofenac by diabetics were linked to a higher risk of heart failure.
The study findings were presented during the recent European Society of Cardiology annual congress or ESC Congress 2022 and will be publis...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Induced Myocarditis Jul 25, 2022 4 months ago
A new study conducted by researchers from Sorbonne University-France has identified two distinct phenotypes of fulminant COVID-19-related myocarditis in adults, with totally different and unique clinical presentations, immunologic profiles, and outcomes.
According to the study team, typically adults who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 can develop a multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MI...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Induced Heart Issues Jul 08, 2022 5 months ago
A new study by researchers from Johns Hopkins University-USA has alarmingly discovered that up to 43% of post-COVID individuals have persistent cardiovascular issues! Researchers from the University of Wollongong-Australia also collaborated in the study.
The study team initially planned to examine risk factors for cardiac-related PASC in community-dwelling adults after acute coronavirus d...
Source: Colchicine-Heart Failure Jun 20, 2022 6 months ago
A new study by medical researchers from the University of Virginia-USA has found that the common and cheap drug that is used to treat gout- Colchicine, also helps improve the survival rates of heart failure patients.
Considering that the incidences of heart failures has increased tremendously during the COVID-19 pandemic due to suspected links between the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the direct and indir...
CardioCOVID: A new study by researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 protein Nsp6 is able to induce cardiac defects in the human host through MGA/MAX complex-mediated increased glycolysis! This shocking revelation showed that the Nsp6 proteins can induce morphological as well as functional defects that can eventually lead to heart failures!
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Source: COVID-Cardiovascular Issues - Medical-News Feb 08, 2022 10 months ago
COVID-Cardiovascular Issues: Two new studies are providing evidence that all individuals who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are at greater risk of developing a wide range of cardiovascular issues ranging from heart failures, cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, inflammatory disease of the heart or pericardium, ischemic heart disease, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy cardiac arrest,...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Heart Jan 27, 2022 10 months ago
SARS-CoV-2-Heart: Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have in a new study discovered that SARS-CoV-2 Nsp6, Nsp8 and M genes compromise the transcriptome of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
Cardiac manifestations are commonly observed in COVID-19 patients and prominently contributed to overall mortality.
To date, it is already known that human m...
Source: COVID-19-Heart Blocks Jan 06, 2022 11 months ago
COVID-19-Heart Blocks: A new study by researchers from Larkin Community Hospital, Florida-USA has uncovered that heart block is another common cardiovascular occurrence among many COVID-19 patients or those that had been deemed as ‘recovered’ or were even asymptomatic and never knew that they had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus!
Ever since the initial debut of the...
Source: COVID-19-Cardiovacular Deaths Dec 30, 2021 11 months ago
COVID-19-Cardiovacular Deaths: A new study by researchers from Oregon Health & Science University, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University have in a new study found that either symptomatic or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with increased risk of late cardiovascular outcomes and has causal effect on all-cause mor...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Heart Vascular Damage Dec 23, 2021 12 months ago
Scientist from the University of Göttingen-Germany, Hannover Medical School-Germany, Technical University of Denmark-Denmark and the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz-Germany have in a new study using a new innovative x-ray imaging platform shockingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to cause extensive vascular damage to the heart! The stud...
Source: COVID-19-Heart Issues Dec 13, 2021 12 months ago
COVID-19-Heart Issues: Th European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has published on its website a warning based on the study findings that showed that ‘recovered’ COVID-19 patients who continue to be short of breath during physical activity one year after recovering from the infection may have suffered heart damage and that such individuals should seek medical advice and treatments i...
Source: Toxic Chemicals And Human Health Oct 13, 2021 1 year ago
Toxic Chemicals: A new study by researchers from at NYU Grossman School of Medicine has found that daily exposure to chemicals called phthalates, which are used in the manufacture of plastic food containers and many cosmetics, may lead to roughly 100,000 premature deaths among older Americans each year.
Interestingly most of the deaths were due to phthalate-induced heart issues and not can...
COVID-19 and the Heart:The European Society of Cardiology and its researchers are warning that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease also affects the heart in so many ways and that fatalities and excess deaths due to COVID-19 induced heart issues are also rising.
The report was published in the peer reviewed e-Journal of Cardiology Practice (An official journal of the...
Source: COVID-19-Myocarditis Sep 16, 2021 1 year ago
COVID-19 and Myocarditis: A new study by researchers from the Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton-UK and the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth-UK warns about the occurrences of myocarditis and pericarditis in men following mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination. Though considered rare events, the number of cases being reported worldwide is of a concern.
The s...
Source: Atrial Fibrillation And Heart Conditions Sep 02, 2021 1 year ago
A new study by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco has found that consumption of alcohol raises the risk for atrial fibrillation which may ultimately result in heart failure.
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Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is an abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) characterized by the rapid and irregular beating of...
Source: Ultra-processed Foods and Cardiovascular Disease Aug 30, 2021 1 year ago
Based on a meta-analysis of data from the ATTICA study, researchers from Harokopio University of Athens have found that ultra-processed foods are responsible for an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
https://www.maelstrom-research.org/study/attica
https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Ultra-processed-food-is-associated-with-cardiovascular-disease
The s...
Source: COVID-19 Related Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke Aug 03, 2021 1 year ago
Despite many warnings by Thailand Medical New since the mid of last year that the COVID-19 disease was being a high risk factor for getting a stroke or a heart attack for not only for those that were affected but also those who were deemed recovered, many researchers and even doctors simply ignored us. Worse, certain American researchers even went to the extent of saying that this was not true and...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs-Statins Jul 16, 2021 1 year ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from the University of California-San Diego School Of medicine-USA has confirmed that patients taking statin medications had a 41 percent lower risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19.
According to the study team, statins have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects that may reduce the severity of the COVID-19 disease, in which organ dysfunction i...
Heart and COVID-19: Considering that a high percentage of COVID-19 patients including those that were deemed as having “recovered” are manifesting atrial fibrillation ie an irregular heartbeat that can increase a person's risk for heart failure and stroke, among other heart issues, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified a type of echocardiogram which is a common te...
Source: COVID-19-Myocarditis Jul 08, 2021 1 year ago
COVID-19 Warning: A new meta study by researchers from India, United States, Peru, Russia and Pakistan involving more than 41 published case reports and clinical studies alarmingly indicates that myocarditis is a real threat to those who had contracted the COVID-19 disease and had so called been deemed as recovered from the disease.
The study findings also collaborate with the fact that the...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis Jun 17, 2021 1 year ago
COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis: A new study by researchers from Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Fairfax-Virginia and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas-Texas details the treatment of myocarditis-like symptoms in seven individuals after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Myopericarditis has been reported as a rare vaccination comp...
Source: Heart Failure -SARS-CoV-2 Mar 03, 2021 2 years ago
Despite attempts to downplay the seriousness of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections and the issue of Long COVID by Western health officials and experts, more studies are emerging on these areas especially on the myriad of heart issues arising as a result of having had COVID-19.
It has been speculated that a huge amount of excess deaths due to heart issues around the world are in fact been l...
Source: COVID-19-Heart-Issues Feb 18, 2021 2 years ago
COVID-19-Heart-Issues: A new study by researchers from the University College London, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Barts Heart Centre and the National Heart and Lung Institute-UK has found that more than 50% of patients who have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 and who show raised levels of a protein called troponin have damage to t...
Source: Echocardiograms And COVID-19 Oct 27, 2020 2 years ago
Echocardiograms or cardiac ultrasounds are providing a view of the heart and the impact of the COVID-19 virus on patients. Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in a new study have identified different types of cardiac structural damage experienced by COVID-19 patients after cardiac injury that can be associated with deadly conditions including heart attack, pulmonary embolism, ...
Source: Guide To Myocarditis And COVID-19 By Thailand Medical News Oct 09, 2020 2 years ago
Myocarditis-COVID-19: Of late many have been hearing reading about the devastating effects of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on the hearts of those infected irrespective of conditions they endured ie mild, moderate or severe or even if they were asymptomatic or are recovered.
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-covid-19-causing-an-unprecedented-heart-crisis-all-recovered-patients-urged-to...
ACE2: Canadian researchers from the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University-Ontario, along with support from experts from Bayer Pharmaceuticals-Germany in a news study have discovered that increased plasma ACE2 (Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2) levels in the blood could indicate a higher risk of major cardiovascular events.
In brief, the stu...
Source: Post-COVID Myocarditis Sep 21, 2020 2 years ago
Post-COVID Myocarditis: As a result of alarming data showing that a majority of recovered COVID-19 patients have some sort of heart tissue damage after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus irrespective of whatever the conditions they had endured ie from mild, moderate , severe or asymptomatic, there is a huge rush by many concerned to go for heart screenings. https://www.thailandmedical....
Source: Omega-3 Supplements Sep 17, 2020 2 years ago
Omega-3 Supplements: A new meta-analysis study of 40 past studies involving a total of more than 135,267 participants indicates that EPA and DHA supplementation reduces multiple types of cardiovascular risk and also improves hearth health.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Mayo Clinic Proceedings. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/...
Heart Attacks: It is already a known fact that a heart attack can leave parts of the heart permanently scarred and stiff, resulting in prolonged disability and potential progression toward heart failure. Medical researchers have studied various ways to repair or regenerate such damaged heart tissue with only limited success.
However a new study led by chemist Dr Matthew Disney, Ph.D., fro...
Source: Cardiovascular Disease Aug 23, 2020 2 years ago
Cardiovascular Disease: A new study led by Australian researchers from Edith Cowan University, University of Western Australia, Flinders University, University of Sydney and also American researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Institute-Minneapolis shows that cruciferous vegetables could be the most beneficial when it comes to preventing advanced blood ...
Source: Nifedipine and Amlodipine Aug 19, 2020 2 years ago
Nifedipine and Amlodipine: While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, there have been concerns on medications taken by patients for various cardiometabolic disorders as they are more vulnerable to the coronavirus infection.
It has been found that patients with diabetes, hypertension, and other comorbidities are at higher risk of death from the virus.
https://www.nature...
Stem Cells shielded via encapsulation in an alginate based hydrogel were found to be effective in reducing damage caused by heart attacks according to a new study by bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
A postdoctoral research associate at Rice University, displays a
vial of alginate capsules loaded with mesenchymal stem cells.
(Photo by Jeff Fitlo...
Source: COVID-19 Heart And Cardiovascular Conditions Aug 17, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Heart And Cardiovascular Conditions: As of Monday (17th August ), the COVID-19 disease is seeing a new surge in infection cases all around the world from South Korea, Japan To France, Germany and Hong Kong. Official figures are now at a total of almost 21.7 million cases (realistic figures could be as high as 10 to 12 times) and the number of COVID-19 deaths globally has now reached more ...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Aug 07, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: As daily evidence mounts that COVID-19 can damage the heart, cardiologists and medical experts are urging individuals to take precautions when doing vigorous exercise.
It has been reported that up to 30% of patients hospitalized with coronavirus infection have signs of cardiac injury plus it has been found in various studies that the SARS-CoV-2 is able to caus...
Source: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Aug 03, 2020 2 years ago
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: According a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Copenhagen, women in their 30s and 40s with a common condition affecting how the ovaries work are more likely to get heart disease. The condition is known as polycystic ovary syndrome.
The research findings were published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiol...
Myopathy: Although statins are commonly prescribed to millions of individuals globally to reduce their risks of suffering heart attacks and strokes, many alsos develop myopathy as a result of taking these drugs.
Now, researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with other researchers, have identified a combination of factors that put some patients at higher risk of my...
Medicine Alert: Pennsylvania State University researchers along with scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology-California and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, have found that in rats and human cells in vitro, LCCBs cause changes in blood vessels known as vascular remodeling that reduce blood flow and increase pressure and could potentially lead to heart failure.
The study finding...
Source: COVID-19 Heart Issues Jul 15, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Heart Issues: To date more than 22% of all COVID-19-associated deaths are from cardiac complications, yet the mechanisms from which these complications arise have remained a topic of debate in the cardiology community.
One common hypothesis centers on the infection of the heart itself, but the understanding of which cells may be infected is unclear.
In order to address thi...
Source: European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Jun 24, 2020 2 years ago
European Society of Cardiology: Microbiome or microorganisms on the tongue could help diagnose heart failure, according to research presented on HFA Discoveries, a scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Tongue-microbes-provide-window-to-heart-health
Study author Dr Tianhui Yuan from No.1 Hospital of Guangzhou...
Source: Chemotherapy, Doxirubicin And Heart Failure Jun 20, 2020 2 years ago
Chemotherapy: Medical researchers from Yale have developed a technique to predict whether cancer patients receiving a common chemotherapy drug are likely to experience heart failure as a result.
Doxorubicin, a chemotherapy drug which is often used to treat a number of cancers, including breast and bladder cancers, lymphoma, and Kaposi's sarcoma also has some negative side-effects of w...
Source: Cardiovascular Disease: Disease Jun 18, 2020 2 years ago
Cardiovascular Disease: A recent study in the journal JAMA Cardiology has suggested that even a normal systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 90 mm Hg is not good enough. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2766469
Based on the study findings, there appears to be a stepwise increase in the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) beginning at an SBP le...
Atherosclerosis: Medical scientist at Scripps Research have identified cyclic peptide molecules that can remodel the gut microbiome to a healthier state and they have shown through studies in mice that this reduces cholesterol levels and strongly inhibits the thickened-artery condition known as atherosclerosis.
The researchers created a set of molecules called cyclic peptides th...
Source: Myocardial Injury Jun 09, 2020 3 years ago
Myocardial Injury: Medical researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that myocardial injury or heart damage is prevalent among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and is associated with higher risk of mortality. More specifically, a serious myocardial injury can triple the risk of death.
Lead researcher Dr Anuradha Lala, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)...
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