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Researchers share insight about strategies being studied to support the cardiovascular health of people living with HIV When Tom Ortiz was diagnosed with HIV more than 30 years ago, he felt like he was handed a death sentence. “In the early days, if AIDS didn’t kill you a heart attack would,” said Ortiz, a community health worker in Ohio. “It was...
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The NHLBI and Sickle Cell Disease The NHLBI has researched sickle cell disease since its founding as the National Heart Institute in 1948. Since 1972, when the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control act was passed, the NHLBI has spent more than $1 billion researching the condition. The NHLBI funds basic research and large clinical trials and conducts...
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Gene Scan IDs Heart Disease Risk
High blood cholesterol and triglycerides are known risk factors for heart disease. However, it is unclear how much of the risk for either is inherited. To address this question, scientists analyzed DNA from more than 100,000 people in a search for genetic...
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Nine studies focus on heart, lung, and blood diseases The National Institutes of Health has funded nine new studies that will develop induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, from patients with genetic variations that have been associated with coronary artery disease, pulmonary hypertension, clotting disorders, diabetes, and other conditions...
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has launched a program to help translate basic discoveries into successful treatments. The Science Moving towArds Research Translation and Therapy program, or SMARTT, will support the transition of potential new therapies for heart, lung, and blood diseases from discovery in the lab to the...
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Scientific advances that benefit the public health are only as good as their ability to reach the public. Oftentimes, though, the people most at need for those interventions and advances–such as inner city African-American communities—are also the most difficult to reach.
Dr. Tiffany Powell-Wiley...
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The human heart is an amazing biological machine controlled by an internal electrical system that produces about 100,000 beats a day. When abnormal electrical activity causes the heart to beat too quickly, too slowly, or erratically, the condition is called an arrhythmia. Although most arrhythmias are harmless, some can interfere with the heart's...
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Blood has been called the river of life, and for good reason. Blood transports life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients. Blood automatically forms a clot when we get cut. Blood helps our immune system fight off germs. Each year, nearly 5 million Americans need a blood transfusion. Fortunately, the vast majority of transfusions are effective and cause...
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The heart is the first organ to form and begin working in humans. More than two decades of research have told us a lot about normal heart development. New diagnostic tools such as fetal echocardiography now allow doctors to find heart defects during pregnancy. In 1950, a child born with a congenital heart defect had only a 20 percent chance of...
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In the mid-20th century, deaths from cardiovascular diseases, and particularly coronary heart disease and stroke, were skyrocketing, yet no one was sure what caused cardiovascular diseases or how they could be treated or prevented. By 1950, more than twice as many Americans died annually from cardiovascular diseases as from cancer. Until the 1950s...