Tag: Cardiology
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Pursuing Deeper Understanding about the Most Common Type of Heart Failure
Of the estimated five million patients in the U.S. diagnosed with heart failure annually, nearly half will have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and at the forefront of HFpEF research are Feinberg investigators.
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Investigating Prevalence Risk of Familial Heart Failure
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) was found to have a familial etiology in 30 percent of individuals diagnosed with DCM, and the overall risk for a family member of developing DCM was nearly 20 percent by the age of 80.
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Poor Heart Health Before Pregnancy Linked to Adverse Outcomes
A new study shines a spotlight on an important but often overlooked matter of the heart — optimizing cardiovascular health before getting pregnant.
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Police Violence Linked to Higher Rates of Preterm Delivery, Heart Disease Among Black Women
A new study suggests that one contributor to inequities in pregnancy and cardiovascular outcomes may be the stress created by police violence occurring in Black women’s neighborhoods.
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Arrhythmia Genes More Common Than Previously Thought
Sequencing known cardiac arrythmia genes in more than 20,000 people without an indication for genetic testing identified pathogenic variants in nearly one percent of individuals.
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Response to Exercise is Key to Novel Device Therapy for the Most Common Type of Heart Failure
A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests that some patients with the most common type of heart failure may benefit from a novel, minimally invasive cardiac implant device called an atrial shunt.
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Remembering Jeremiah Stamler, MD, Founding Chair and Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine
Jeremiah Stamler, MD, founding chair and professor emeritus of Preventive Medicine, passed away on January 26. He was 102 years old.
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Without Coronary Calcium, Risk Factors Impact Cardiovascular Disease
Among patients with no detectable coronary artery calcium, those who smoke, have diabetes or hypertension have the highest risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to a recent study.
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First Model to Predict Lifetime Risk of Heart Failure
A new Northwestern Medicine study has, for the first time, derived and validated a set of risk prediction models for lifetime risk of heart failure.
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Effectiveness of Subcutaneous Defibrillators
Electric shocks delivered by subcutaneous defibrillators are equally effective compared to shocks delivered by conventional transvenous defibrillators, according to a recent study.
