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Contrary to what was previously assumed, physical exercise does not lead to harmful ventricular enlargement. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU) have disproved this earlier hypothesis...

An international team of scientists, in which researchers of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) were significantly involved, discovered that nearly half of all hereditary risk factors of a coronary artery disease are also associated with entirely different...

Scientists from the hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar of TU Munich have discovered that endurance and strength training following a heart valve replacement not only improves the patients’ physical fitness, but also their quality of life.

Patients with atrial fibrillation who are treated with oral thrombin inhibitors (OTIs) have a slightly higher risk of suffering a heart attack than patients who take vitamin K antagonists. Scientists headed by Dr. Tobias Petzold of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research...

Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, as well as from the German Center for Heart and Circulatory Research, have found a new mechanism which leads to atrial fibrillation and even sudden cardiac death due to cardiac arrhythmia.