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Exercise in polluted air above a certain threshold may cause cardiovascular side effects because high levels of particulate matter. This proves a recent study from South Korea with almost 1.5 million young adults.

Atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, does not come back as quickly in obese people if they lose weight after catheter ablation, which is standard therapy for symptomatic atrial fibrillation. This is shown by the SORT-AF study, supported by the German Centre for...

Revacept is a novel platelet inhibitor that binds specifically to injured blood vessels and can be used safely during catheter interventions. This is now demonstrated in a study enrolling patients with narrowed coronary arteries co-funded by the German Centre for Cardiovascular...

Recovering from a corona infection at home - that's what most people want to do. But sometimes hospitalization is unavoidable. But when is the right time for this? This is being investigated by the COVID SMART study at LMU Klinikum München. Anyone who has risk factors for a...

A research group from the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is growing artificial heart tissue to heal heart failure. The researchers can now use cells with sophisticated properties for this purpose. This is...

A small, wearable heart monitor can detect atrial fibrillation in high-risk patients ten times more frequently than standard tests. This is the result of a new trans-Atlantic study involving researchers from Canada and Germany.

Cardiac arrhythmias were the most common cardiovascular problem in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This is shown in an evaluation by scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology at Heidelberg...

For the first time, engineered heart muscle (EHM) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) will be used to treat patients with heart failure. After regulatory approval, recruitment of the first patient for the first-in-class, first-in-patient BioVAT-HF-DZHK20 early...

Diastolic heart failure can be reliably detected with a newly developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, shows a study by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Göttingen site. Until now, this was only possible with a heart catheterisation study,...

Circulatory disorders in the heart can have two causes: The large blood vessels can be narrowed, which can be treated with a stent, for example, or the small, finely branched vessels are no longer permeable. The latter is called impaired coronary microcirculation. A study by the...