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Jeanette Erdmann (DZHK partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck), Michael Joner and Heribert Schunkert (both DZHK partner site Munich) are members of a consortium which is supported by the French-American Leducq Foundation with six million dollars.

Body scanners used for security checks are safe for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators, according to late breaking research presented today at ESC Congress 2018.

Air pollution, and fine dust in particular, is responsible for more than four million deaths each year. Almost 60 per cent of deaths occur as a result of cardiovascular diseases. Scientists around Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Münzel, Director of Cardiology I, Department of Cardiology...

If several coronary vessels are dangerously narrowed, patients are often treated with a bypass operation. In other words, vascular grafts are fashioned that redirect vital oxygenated blood around the blocked sections to the heart. The patients’ veins are often used as bypass...

An international consortium including researchers from Munich's DZHK has been awarded 6 million dollars from the French-American Leducq Foundation. The researchers are investigating the role of clonal proliferation of white blood cells in the development of atherosclerosis.