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The German Heart Foundation provides information on the risks of myocarditis from Covid-19 and mRNA vaccination. One expert says: "The health risk from a Covid-19 infection - in every age group - is much higher than the risk of myocarditis from mRNA vaccination."

The interplay of genetics and epigenetics is a long-sought riddle in the development of diseases. Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Imperial College London discovered novel interactions. Their findings improve our knowledge about environmentally triggered diseases and may...

A research team led by Stefan Engelhardt, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Principal Investigator at the DZHK, has developed a new RNA drug that can prevent inflammatory lung damage. The German Federal Ministry of Education...

Musclin, a hormone-like messenger substance of the skeletal muscle, protects against the pathological overload of the heart. For patients with chronic heart failure, the discovery could open up advances in therapy.

Even mild disease courses with COVID-19 impair the heart, lungs and kidneys. Scientists from the Hamburg University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) proved this. In addition, with mild to moderate infections, there are frequent signs of thrombosis in the leg veins. The...

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is funding several special evaluations of the German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY). The results will ensure that different groups of patients with heart valve disease requiring surgery receive the optimal therapy: either...

The German Center for Cardiovascular Research has carried out pioneering clinical Covid-19 research by making its clinical research platform available to the nationwide Network University Medicine (NUM) in 2020. Starting in 2022, the NUM will operate its own research platform...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart muscle tissue of people who died from Covid-19. Damage to lung tissue has been the research focus in this area for some time and has...

Not much is known about Long Covid. A new study by the Mainz University Medical Center shows that around 40 per cent struggle with health problems for a long time after a corona infection. Almost 30 per cent complained that they had not returned to their original performance...

Despite successful treatment of narrowed aortic valves by catheter-assisted aortic valve implantation (TAVI), patients with severely scarred hearts are at significantly greater risk of dying within one year post-treatment. To date, patients have not received drug treatments to...