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Atrial fibrillation is recognised and treated more than twice as often in older people using conventional smartphones compared to routine examinations. This is shown by a study presented at this year's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona and published in...

Patients with heart failure frequently also suffer from atrial fibrillation. Their heart then beats irregularly and often too fast, further worsening the heart failure , which may lead to hospitalization. A study funded by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is...

Patients with atrial fibrillation benefit from early rhythm-maintenance therapy. It prevents complications better than the usual treatment. This is the result of the EAST-AFNET 4 study conducted by the Atrial Fibrillation NETwork (AFNET). Analyses of various subgroups of the...

In a study conducted by the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), scientists are investigating a heart valve replacement made of the patient's own tissue, which is unique worldwide according to the current state of knowledge. The goal is to obtain safe implants that...

For the first time, the six German Centers for Health Research (DZG) are launching a joint research program - the DZG Innovation Fund (DZGIF).

Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital together with a team of international researchers demonstrate a positive effect of physical activity on the generation of new heart muscle cells in older hearts in an animal model / Molecular analyses provide information on the...

Cardiomyopathy is not a uniform disease. Rather, individual genetic defects lead to heart failure in different ways, an international consortium reports in “Science”. MDC researcher Norbert Hübner is one of the senior authors.