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What role do omega-6 fatty acids play in cardiovascular diseases and diabetes? Scientists from Mannheim, together with researchers from Heidelberg, DZHK scientists from Frankfurt and scientists from Hangzhou in China, have investigated the breakdown of omega-6 fatty acids and...

The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding a joint project between the Heidelberg Medical Faculty and the Mainz University Medical Centre with five million euros. The interdisciplinary team led by DZHK PIs Prof. Dr Engelhardt and DZHK scientist Prof. Dr Wild aims to develop...

People with severe heart failure who have an external ventricular assist device benefit from tailored exercise training. This is the finding of the Ex-VAD-DZHK-11 study conducted at eight centers in Germany. Both quality of life and submaximal exercise capacity improved...

Investigator-initiated trials led by the German Atrial Fibrillation NETwork (AFNET) provide evidence for several recommendations in the 2023 guideline for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation (AF) developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the...

Researchers at the Heart Centre of the University Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG) have discovered a defective iron transport pathway in patients with heart failure, which has a negative effect on cell metabolism. At the same time, the scientists found ways to correct this defect...

Scientists at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that makes it easier to predict the side effects of new active drug substances and therapeutic approaches on the heart. The advantage of this method is that it can be...

A research team from the University Medical Centre Mainz and the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck Campus, working together within the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), has identified an autoantibody as a novel, previously unknown risk...

Young DZHK scientist Dr. Lena Marie Seegers from the University Hospital Frankfurt, Centre for Internal Medicine III, receives the German Heart Foundation's "Women's Hearts" science prize for her work on gender-specific differences in plaque structures. The prize was awarded for...