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"Heart and brain together in focus" is the title of the public lecture series of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in the winter semester 2023/2024. In the series, scientists from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale...

Researchers at the DZHK partner site in Munich have demonstrated for the first time what role a specific microRNA plays in atherosclerosis – and how it manages to intervene in this signaling pathway.

Whether the SCAI shock classification can also be usefully applied to cardiac surgery patients has now been investigated by DHZC physician Dr. Tobias Röschl from the DHZC "Clinical Data Science" working group headed by Prof. Alexander Meyer. For this purpose, he subsequently...

A task force co-chaired by DZHK scientist and DHZC heart surgeon Simon Sündermann has developed an interdisciplinary consensus on the uniform determination of frailty as a risk factor in heart surgery.

After birth, the human heart loses its regenerative capacity almost completely. Damage to the heart muscle, for example through a heart attack, is therefore usually permanent in adults. Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim have now...

When the PRDM16 gene mutates, heart muscle cells undergo changes in their metabolism. This increases the risk of congenital heart failure in women more than men, as a ECRC research team led by Sabine Klaassen and Jirko Kühnisch reports in “Cardiovascular Research.”

A team led by Prof. Wesley Abplanalp at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) has gained new insights into why so-called CHIP mutations can negatively influence the course of cardiovascular disease. The findings, published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular...

As part of the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), researchers from the Department of Cardiology I at the Centre for Cardiology at the Mainz University Hospital and the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have shown that people with a low socio-economic status have a...

Many cardiovascular diseases are hereditary. They can now be detected relatively easily, cheaply and quickly using genetic diagnostics. In Germany, however, this technology is only inadequately used. In a consensus paper published by the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), the...