SYNERGIE - Research for Health. The magazine of the DZG
RESEARCH FOR HEALTH - this is the motto under which the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) report twice a year on projects and successes in translational research.
The SYNERGY-magazine is also available as a printed edition and can be subscribed to at info(at)dzg-magazin.de or on this page. Please note that the magazine is only available in German.
The current issue #1 | 2024 focuses on external stimuli: air pollution, noise and microorganisms have an impact on our health. The totality of these factors is referred to as the exposome - research into which offers many opportunities for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Issue #1 | 2024
Invisible danger: fine particulates and noise
Particulate matter shortens a person's life by almost three years. In addition to stricter limit values, researchers at the DZHK believe that cities need to be reorganised to make them more humane.
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Issue #2 | 2023
Dangerous blood cells
Blood cells with chip mutations can damage the heart and blood vessels. They increase the risk of cardiovascular disease more than smoking, obesity and high blood pressure.
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Issue #1 | 2023
When a stroke damages the heart
If the heart is ill, the brain suffers - and vice versa. DZHK researchers want to decipher how the two organs influence each other.
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Issue #2 | 2022
Cardiac support from the petri dish
Göttingen researchers sew tissue patches onto the heart wall of patients with severe heart failure.
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Issue #1 | 2022
Against stress in the blood vessels
DZHK researchers investigate the role of the innate immune system in atherosclerosis.
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Issue #2 | 2021
Treating weak hearts individually
The DZHK is researching how diseased hearts differ at the molecular level. This should make new therapies possible.
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Issue #1 | 2021
The family from Emsland
Genome researchers now know many mechanisms that increase the risk of heart attack. This makes new treatment and prevention concepts possible.
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Issue #2 | 2020
A bandaid against blood clots
Munich researchers led by Prof Stefan Massberg from the DZHK make cardiac catheterisation operations safer.
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Issue #1 | 2020
How are you doing, heart?
The troponin test has revolutionised heart attack care - and it is constantly being developed further.
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Issue #2 | 2019
Sport as medicine
Cardiovascular research is increasingly focussing on prevention.
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Issue #1 | 2019
Lightning strike to the heart
A new generation of defibrillators promises to eliminate cardiac arrhythmia almost imperceptibly.
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