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What to do when the heart stumbles?

In a television report on the NDR health programme Visite, Prof. Dr Rolf Wachter from Göttingen University Hospital reports on how atrial fibrillation…

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Two new Collaborative Research Centers on cardiovascular research funded by the DFG

The German Research Foundation funds two new Collaborative Research Centers on cardiovascular research led by DZHK partner institutions in Frankfurt…

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Inflammation in cardiac muscle cells in children: Are defective genes responsible?

DZHK researcher at the German Heart Center Berlin investigates disease mechanisms of myocardial inflammation in children - supported by Gerd Killian…

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Ten years of DZG: "Pacesetters in health research"

Four of six German Centres for Health Research (DZG) celebrated their tenth anniversary today with a ceremony in Berlin and around 300 guests from the…

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Altered stress hormone release influences mortality

People with an altered release of the stress hormone cortisol have an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Researchers reported this…

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New research network on heredity in heart attacks launched at the University of Lübeck

Atherosclerosis and the resulting secondary diseases, coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) are the leading causes of death…

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Center for Cardiovascular Disease Control (CCDC)

At its spring meetings, the German Science Council rated the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Control (CCDC) proposed by the Mannheim Medical Faculty…

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