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NIH supported study shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 can damage the heart without directly infecting heart tissue SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can damage the heart even without directly infecting the heart tissue, a National Institutes of Health-supported study has found. The research, published in the journal Circulation...
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NHLBI in the Press
Ventricular tachycardia is a life-threatening fast heart rhythm that occurs frequently in heart attack patients and can lead to sudden cardiac death.
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NHLBI in the Press
White blood cells such as neutrophils may defend against infection, but they also have destructive properties.
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NHLBI in the Press
Older patients, women, and racial and ethnic minorities carry a disproportionate burden of heart failure in the general population, but their enrollment in clinical trials has been lower than expected.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers are reporting new insights into the genetic and cellular changes associated with the development of nasal polyps, soft outgrowths that can appear in the nasal passages and sinuses and cause breathing problems and infections.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers partly funded by NHLBI have identified a drug that could treat, and perhaps reverse, pulmonary arterial hypertension, a severe lung disease with a five-year survival rate of 50 percent. The findings were published in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers are reporting new evidence that surgery to prevent abnormal acid reflux appears promising for slowing the progress of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an incurable disease that causes scarring of the lungs and often results in death from respiratory failure.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers have found that a group of viruses that cause severe stomach illness—including the one famous for widespread outbreaks on cruise ships— get transmitted to humans through membrane-cloaked “virus clusters” that exacerbate the spread and severity of disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
During the longest and largest obesity prevention study of its kind, young children and their families in poor communities made some achievable and sustainable behavioral changes, but the results were insufficient to prevent early childhood obesity, researchers say.
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NHLBI in the Press
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disease in which a type of protein builds up in the air sacs of the lungs, making breathing difficult.