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International study lays the foundations for potential new therapy of a large number of diseases | Joint press release by the Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University and the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research

Environmental stressors such as traffic noise pose a threat to human health worldwide. A study by DZHK researcher Prof. Thomas Münzel, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, shows that noise has negative effects on blood vessels and the brain within a very...

When the heart gets out of rhythm, characteristic processes occur in the heart muscle cells. Among other things, the currents of electrically charged particles (ions) change. In chronic atrial fibrillation, one of these currents is reduced. Dr. Cristina Molina from the University...

At the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), clinical study data and samples belong not to individual clinics but to a superordinate structure - the DZHK. The basis for this is the collaborative clinical research platform launched ten years ago, which makes data and...

The world's only clinical trial to implant artificial heart tissue in patients with heart failure to permanently strengthen the heart muscle has reached its first important milestone: the determination of the maximum safe dose could be completed after the treatment of 10...

Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death. Approximately one million people with heart failure also suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder that causes uncontrolled impulses in the atria and irregular heartbeats. This arrhythmia can usually be...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women and men worldwide. However, there are numerous differences between the hearts of the two sexes. The new junior research group of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) led by PD Dr. Claudia Crocini is...

It is a unique process in German health research: 20 experts and patients have worked together on a roadmap to systematically expand active patient participation in medical research.

A leaking mitral valve can be repaired surgically or with catheter-based techniques. A so-called mitral valve prolapse is particularly common, in which part of the valve protrudes (prolapses) into the left atrium. The American PRIMARY study investigates which method is most...

This is what ideal medicine would look like: Doctors could specifically alter molecular processes in diseased cells in the body and thus causally cure patients. This is the goal of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG) in the project "Cell type specific targeting for...