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The Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and the University of Heidelberg will combine their expertise in vascular and cardiac research and systems biology: Together, they are founding the Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) in Mannheim and Heidelberg. The...

In patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle is permanently inflamed even though there is no viral infection. In the TRINITY-DZHK26 study, researchers are testing whether it helps to suppress the immune system with drugs for a limited period of time.

Research teams around the world are searching for the causes of Long COVID. Scientists PD Dr Leo Nicolai, Dr Rainer Kaiser and Prof. Konstantin Stark from the Munich partner site of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have now taken a closer look at...

A mutation that causes severe hypertension also protects the kidneys from being damaged, reports a team led by Enno Klußmann of the Max Delbrück Center and the DZHK in “Kidney International”. The researchers are now exploring how the effects of the mutated gene can be used...

Scientists are discovering more and more tasks performed by ribonucleic acids, or RNA for short, in the body. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Goethe University Frankfurt - both partner institutions in the DZHK - have been investigating the role of...

According to the authors of a recent study, this is mainly due to deficiencies in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Existing cardiovascular diseases are also detected too late and often cannot be treated as effectively as possible. It is in this area that Germany...

Environmental stressors such as air pollution, noise, unhealthy urban planning, and climate change increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, as do traditional risk factors such as smoking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity. An article recently today in Nature Review...

On the occasion of the Children with Heart Disease Day on May 5th, the National Heart Alliance (NHA) is raising awareness of a common hereditary condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia. It can also lead to heart attacks at a younger age and could be easily detected and...

Funding for Germany's largest health study has been secured for another five years. The Federal Government, the single states and the Helmholtz Association are investing up to €128 million in the long-term study, which has been interviewing and medically examining around 200,000...