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Los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (NIH, por sus siglas en inglés) anunciaron hoy una subvención de $12 millones para proyectos de promoción de salud y participación comunitaria en regiones con minorías étnicas y raciales afectadas de manera desproporcionada por la pandemia de COVID-19. Con estos fondos, RTI International, una institución de...
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NHLBI in the Press
Two Boston hospital patient registries show women ages 50 and younger are less likely to have a heart attack compared to men the same age, but they have higher death rates a decade later.
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NHLBI in the Press
Scientists finalized the Genotype-Tissue Expression project, which characterizes thousands of genetic variants in 49 tissue types from 838 donors.
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NHLBI in the Press
A study profiles the metabolic preferences of human hearts, which supports future research to prevent and treat heart failure.
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Research Feature
Peter Libby, M.D., never imagined nearly 40 years ago that his research would contribute to the current understanding of how the novel coronavirus targets and ravages the blood vessels in people with COVID-19. In the 1980s, Libby, then an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, was the first to discover that arterial...
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Research Feature
Could bring improved diagnostics and treatments for dementia, stroke, brain trauma, and more The blood-brain barrier has been called one of neurology’s greatest challenges. The thin, selectively permeable membrane acts almost like plastic wrap, protecting the brain tissue from dangerous pathogens and toxins in the blood. In short, it maintains the...
Credit: Daniel Reichart/Harvard Medical School
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NHLBI in the Press
Scientists catalogued half a million heart cells to provide a reference for the underpinnings of cardiovascular health and disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
A novel study shows a machine-learning model can identify gut bacteria associated with cardiovascular health and disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
Women ages 25-44 had a higher number of first-time strokes compared to men the same age, according to new research in Stroke. These trends reversed for men ages 45-74 and neutralized for men and women ages 75 and older.
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Research Feature
Not so long ago, when doctors saw a patient with the inflammatory skin condition psoriasis, their first line of attack was to address the signs they could see—red, itchy, scaly patches, mostly on the knees, elbows, trunk and scalp. But research over the last several years is forcing a rethinking of the very nature of this common disease. Rather...
Credit: Jessie Huang et al, Cell Stem Cell.
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NHLBI in the Press
A team of NHLBI-funded researchers has discovered a biological pathway that triggers deadly levels of lung inflammation when activated by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.