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 worlds of politics and science. Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Hessian Science Minister Angela Dorn, Berlin...
Twelve European experts have been commissioned by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) to analyse the scientific status and clinical significance of psychosocial issues for heart failure for the first time. They have published their findings in a position...
A new study by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) examines whether patients with a leaky (insufficient) tricuspid valve benefit from catheter-assisted heart valve repair. Scientists at LMU Klinikum München lead the study.
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...
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...
Should the tricuspid valve be treated at the same time as the mitral valve reconstruction? In cases of mild tricuspid valve insufficiency, cardiac surgery guidelines have not provided a clear answer. A transatlantic study now published in the New England Journal of Medicine and...
Prof. Jeanette Erdmann from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the University of Lübeck receives the "BIH Excellence Award for Sex and Gender Aspects in Health Research 2021" from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) in the Charité. Together with two BIH...
Fat cells are much more than simply a calorie storage for scarce times. DZHK scientist Alexander Bartelt studies the role of healthy fat cells in metabolism and what happens when they become aggressive, for example when they overflow after too much food and too little exercise....
People with a thickened heart muscle (cardiac hypertrophy) have a thinner cerebral cortex and white matter damage. Scientists from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Greifswald University Medical Center have recognized this connection between the heart...
