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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
Researchers are reporting development of a novel strategy for targeting heart disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
Being a morning person is a behavioral indicator of a person’s underlying circadian rhythm. Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants, researchers recently increased the number of genetic loci associated with being a morning person from 24 to 351.
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NHLBI in the Press
An NHLBI-funded study found that persistent racial disparities in asthma can largely be explained by socioeconomic and environmental factors, such as access to healthcare and housing conditions.
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NHLBI in the Press
Lifestyle and environmental factors play a central role in cardiovascular disease.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers have found that blood is not properly distributed in the brains of sickle cell disease patients despite once thinking that the issue was a reduction in total oxygen to the brain.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers have developed a simple blood test that can detect when a newly transplanted lung is being rejected by a patient, even when no outward signs of the rejection are evident.
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NHLBI in the Press
The incidence of obesity has reached alarming proportions worldwide, and increasing evidence suggests that the parents’ nutritional status may predispose their offspring to lipotoxic heart disease—the accumulation of fat in heart cells.
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NHLBI in the Press
Researchers are reporting that consuming high levels of inorganic phosphate, a preservative widely used in certain sodas, packaged meats, and other processed foods, is linked to reduced physical activity levels.
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NHLBI in the Press
Regular aerobic exercise in combination with a heart-healthy diet appears to reverse some effects of brain aging and might reduce the risk of dementia, according to a new study that reinforces the value of lifestyles changes for keeping both heart disease and dementia at bay.
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NHLBI in the Press
Black men participating in a blood pressure reduction program implemented in barbershops continued to have significant improvements in their blood pressure in a 12-month follow-up study, according to researchers.