Is physical activity always good for the heart?

Physical activity is thought to be our greatest ally in the fight against cardiovascular disease. But there may be significant variations in its protective effects across a range of different situations, such as regularly playing a sport, carrying heavy loads…

Is physical activity always good for the heart?

Physical activity is thought to be our greatest ally in the fight against cardiovascular disease. But there may be significant variations in its protective effects across a range of different situations, such as regularly playing a sport, carrying heavy loads…

Study Links Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution to Negative Impact on Infants’ Heart Rate Response to Stress

A mother’s exposure to particulate air pollution during pregnancy is associated with reduced cardiac response to stress in six-month-old infants, according to Mount Sinai research published in Environmental Health Perspectives in October. This study is the first to find that particulate air pollution exposure in utero can affect heart rate variability, which is a known risk factor for health issues.

Glucose wears down circadian clocks in obesity, may drive cardiovascular risk

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 22, 2019) – High glucose in obesity appears to gum up the works of the circadian clocks inside our cells that help regulate the timing of many body functions across the 24-hour day and drive the risk…

English proficiency associated with hospital revisits, readmissions

What The Study Did: Patients with limited English proficiency face barriers in health care settings. This observational study examined whether return emergency department visits or hospital readmissions differed between English-proficient patients and those with limited proficiency who were discharged with…

Bentham Science launches the journal New Emirates Medical Journal

Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Access journal, New Emirates Medical Journal. The first issue of the journal, by Bentham Science, will be available online by the start of the year, 2020. Dr. Abdullah Shehab…

Examining risk of suicide and use of ACE inhibitors, ARBs

What The Study Did: Associations between risk of suicide and medications widely used in the management of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, heart failure and diabetes (angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers) were examined in this observational study. To…

New Heart Attack Registry to Provide Unprecedented Insight into STEMI Occurrence, Treatment in North India

A new study published in Clinical Cardiology introduces the North Indian (NORIN) ST‐Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Registry and provides preliminary data collected since its start in January of this year. The prospective cohort study’s first author, Sameer Arora, MD, UNC School of Medicine cardiology fellow and preventive medicine resident

Aggressive and agitated behaviors in dementia are better treated without medications

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine . The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of information. 1. Aggressive and…

Biomedical Engineering Society names Weiqiang Chen a 2019 Young Innovator

BROOKLYN, New York, Thursday, October 10, 2019 – The Biomedical Engineering Society has named Weiqiang Chen, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of biomedical engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, a 2019 Young Innovator of Cellular…

Pairing New Medications Could Offer Hope to Heart Disease Patients

Cardiologist Bertram Pitt, MD, sees promise in combining two new classes of medication into a treatment regimen for patients with cardiovascular disease. Pitt will discuss the advantages of this treatment plan in his plenary lecture at an American Physiological Society Conference in Estes Park, Colo.

Temple scientists ID new targets to treat fibrosis — a feature of many chronic diseases

(Philadelphia, PA) – When it comes to repairing injured tissue, specialized cells in the body known as fibroblasts are called into action. Fibroblasts give rise to healing cells called myofibroblasts, which generally is good in the short term – but…