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People with high blood pressure get COVID-19 more severely and have an increased risk of death. Their immune cells are probably already pre-activated, but blood pressure-lowering ACE inhibitors could counteract the immune hyperactivation. This is reported by an interdisciplinary...

Conditions causing arrhythmia are among the most common cardiac conditions. A study headed by DZHK Scientist Prof. Georg Schmidt of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has demonstrated for the first time that the nocturnal respiratory rate can help with an important...

To protect against sudden cardiac death, all patients with severe cardiac insufficiency, in which the heart's pumping capacity is highly restricted, are currently implanted with a defibrillator. But the procedure is risky and often unnecessary. Every year, the device triggers a...

DZHK researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital have developed a new method for "listening" to stressed heart muscle cells. They have been awarded the Wilhelm P. Winterstein Prize worth 10,000 euros for the technique of analysing proteins that myocardial cells release under...