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After a heart attack, an implanted heart monitor can better detect those at risk of serious complications, when compared to conventional follow-up care. This is the result of a study by researchers from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, presented at the European...

SARS-CoV-2 infection can weaken the heart, but it recovers in most patients after two months. Munich scientists from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the LMU Hospital have shown this in hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

Early initiation of rhythm control therapy is associated with clinical benefit in patients with heart failure and recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation. This was shown in a subgroup analysis of the EAST – AFNET 4 study population. The new findings were presented by Dr. Andreas...

An inhibitor of a fat-degrading protein can protect against heart failure. Researchers at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to show this in mice. It is remarkable that the inhibitor does not act directly in...

Scientists at Mainz University Medical Center have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that influences the function of blood vessels: If a certain protein is missing or is genetically altered, this leads to stress in the inner vessel wall, which in turn can cause...

Until recently, there were few options for predicting the course of myocarditis in children. Now a team of scientists in Berlin, led by Sabine Klaassen at the ECRC, have discovered genetic defects associated with the severity of the disease, as they report in "Circulation:...

At the beginning of the corona pandemic, there were indications that patients with severe COVID-19 have a significantly increased risk of thrombosis. A specific protein that inhibits blood clotting could now be used in the drug treatment of corona patients.

Researchers have found a previously unknown cause of cardiac hypertrophy or the increase in heart muscle mass. Deviations in the genetic material cause ribosomes, which are the protein factories of heart cells, not to work effectively. The impaired protein production causes the...

Atherosclerosis is the main cause of stroke and heart attack. Previous treatments with medicines reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in only some of the patients: Around 60 percent are still at risk. Researchers are focusing on the immune system to develop new therapies and...

Many people try to lose weight by dieting throughout their lives. But what exactly does dieting do to the body? Scientists have found that microorganisms in the gut are the key to weight loss. The study has been published in the journal Nature.