Unhealthy environment causes cardiovascular disease

Two-thirds of noncommunicable diseases caused by environmental factors

16-May-2023 - 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 in Nature Review Cardiology by an ...

Genes in female and male hearts react differently to heart valve defects

20-Jan-2020 - When the heart valve between the aorta and the left ventricle is narrowed, i.e. aortic valve stenosis is present, different genes are active in men than in women. Scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered this for ...

First use of vasoprotective antibody in cardiogenic shock

21-May-2019 - Scientists at the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have started a study to find out whether a monoclonal antibody restoring vascular integrity is safe and has positive effects on organ functions of patients with cardiogenic shock. The multicenter trial is sponsored by the ...

Scientists grow 3D human heart muscle from skin cells

18-Dec-2018 - New German research shows that beating human heart muscle can be grown in a laboratory from donated skin cells. The study, published in Stem Cell Reports and part-funded by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), could lead to personalised treatments for heart conditions like atrial ...

Successes with heart tissue patches from the lab

04-Nov-2016 - Myocardial patches generated in the lab can be grafted on to damaged guinea pig hearts to improve heart function. That is what a team of researchers from Germany, Norway, Scotland and the USA found out. Zebra fish and a few amphibian species can do it, mammals and humans cannot: that is replace ...