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Joncita Todechine, a mother of four who lives on the Navajo Nation, knows all too well what can trigger asthma symptoms in her daughter Ashley. But she didn’t always. She recalls a time in 2013, living in Phoenix and attending medical assistant school, when she rushed her then-three-year-old to the Indian Medical Center. “She was really sick,”...
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NHLBI in the Press
A long-awaited research study funded largely by the NHLBI has produced some of the clearest evidence to date about the usefulness of taking the nutritional supplements vitamin D and fish oil to fight heart disease and cancer.
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NHLBI in the Press
In October, the NIH convened top sleep scientists for a two-day research conference on sleep and the health of women.
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NHLBI in the Press
A new NHLBI-funded study showed that a change in the type of breathing tube paramedics use to resuscitate patients with sudden cardiac arrest can significantly improve the odds of survival and save thousands of lives. More than 90 percent of Americans who experience sudden cardiac arrest die before,
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NHLBI in the Press
A team of researchers partly funded by NHLBI has identified genetic mutations that govern blood cholesterol levels.
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NHLBI in the Press
There might be a way to get the blood pressure lowering benefits of exercise in pill form, a new study in animals suggests. Researchers showed that by increasing the body's supply of beta hydroxybutyrate, a chemical produced predominantly by the liver, it is possible to regulate high blood pressure
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers funded by NHLBI have performed prenatal gene editing to prevent a lethal congenital metabolic disease in mice. The study findings, published in Nature Medicine, offer proof of concept for the possibility of genetic therapies before birth.
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NHLBI in the Press
Silent heart attacks—also known as unrecognized myocardial infarctions (MI)—that show up only on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are associated with an increased risk of death over the long term compared with recognized MI, researchers are reporting.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers say they have discovered a gene mutation that slows the metabolism of sugar in the gut, giving people who have the mutation a distinct advantage over those who do not.