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Taking care of your heart can feel like a tomorrow problem. After all, strain on the organ often piles up stealthily, plaque building in your arteries or blood pressure ticking upward for years without noticeable symptoms—that is, until a serious issue strikes, and you wish you intervened yesterday. It’s the reason cardiologists suggest auditing your

Disease restructures the heart muscle, according to new research By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 2:50 pm PDT, Monday, July 27, 2020 COVID-19 is known to cause severe damage to the lungs, but new studies indicate it may also harm the heart profoundly. COVID-19 is known to cause severe damage to the lungs, but new studies indicate…

reported this discovery a decade ago speculated that the well-established anti-inflammatory properties of E. limosum may have helped these people live to extreme old age. Now, researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus have revealed how the bacterium may reduce people’s risk of developing heart disease.In laboratory cultures of E. limosum, they found evidence to…

By Donna Lu Squiggly pencil lines on paper make inexpensive electrodes that can sense heart rate or skin temperatureYadong Xu Pencil sketches on paper can be configured into sensors that detect a variety of physiological signals, including heart rate, skin temperature and compounds in sweat. Zheng Yan at the University of Missouri in the US…

A new study released by the Journal of the American Medical Association on Thursday found that cardiomyopathy, or "Broken Heart Syndrome," has increased during the coronavirus pandemic.Conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in two Ohio hospitals, the study examined 1,914 patients from five distinct two-month periods -- 250 of which had been hospitalized in March…