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Study demonstrates how to avoid cardiac damage in breast cancer patients
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Breast cancer is the most common disease in the European Union, accounting for 13.3 per cent of all new cancer cases in 2020. Breast cancer is expected to affect 1 in every 11 women in the EU by the age of 74.
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Study reveals ways to avoid heart damage in women receiving breast cancer
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Women with breast cancer will be enrolled in a clinical trial to investigate the ability of behavioural and psychological therapy to minimise the cardiac damage caused by anti-cancer medications. The unique CARDIOCARE initiative is being led by a coalition of European partners, including the
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Childhood inactivity is associated with cardiac disease in young adults: S
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
According to a study presented at ESC Congress 2023, hours of inactivity during childhood could be laying the groundwork for heart attacks and strokes later in life. Even in people with normal weights and blood pressure, the study found that sedentary time accumulated from childhood to young
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Powerhouse proteins protect cardiac cells from chemotherapy damage: Resear
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The University of Illinois at Chicago researchers discovered a method for enzymes to help avoid cardiac damage in chemotherapy patients.
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Specific immune cells cause myocarditis in cancer patients: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In a new study, researchers from UC San Francisco and Vanderbilt University Medical Center identified particular immune cells that cause lethal cardiac damage in a small subsection of cancer immunotherapy patients.
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Distress signal from fat cells prompts heart to shore up defences against
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): A stress signal received by the heart from fat could help protect against cardiac damage induced by obesity, a new study led by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.
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Study shows COVID-19 patients have higher risk of cardiac damage
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 21 (ANI): A recent study revealed that approximately 50 per cent of patients, who are hospitalized due to severe COVID-19 symptoms, show raised levels of a protein called troponin that causes damage to their hearts.
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Study focuses on discovery of cells that heal cardiac damage after infarct
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Pamplona [Spain], September 29 (ANI): Researchers have led an international study identifying the cardiac cells responsible for repairing the damage to the heart after infarction. These "restorative" cells are a subpopulation of cardiac fibroblasts that play a fundamental role in the creati
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Switching the heart's fuel source can help its cells regenerate: Study
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): As revealed by a new study, switching from fats to glucose as a fuel source for the heart muscles could help the organ regenerate when its cells that are responsible for contraction die out as a result of heart failure caused by viruses, toxins, high bloo
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How safe are ADHD drugs for children?
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 4 (ANI): A new study now suggests that drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are unlikely to cause cardiac damage in children who take them.
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