Researchers from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine identified an enzyme, alpha-kinase 2 (ALPK2) that is specifically expressed in the heart. They found that the enzyme may prevent a ...

Heart failure is a pathological condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the rest of the body, because it is either unable to fill with a sufficient volume of blood or unable ...

Women have a lower incidence of heart failure than men, although the incidence may be increasing over time. Since women have a greater life expectancy than men, but the same lifetime risk for ...

That’s because inflammation, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other heart disease risk factors can be impacted by what you eat. In particular, diets high in fiber, healthy fats, and antioxidants ...

Engineering Biology (EngBio) is an emerging field at the confluence of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, AI and Data Science. It has the potential to provide innovative solutions to these challenges by ...

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease ... us clues to the biology underpinning ...

However, this can be dangerous, as this progressive condition may eventually lead to heart failure, if left untreated. “For late-stage patients, once symptoms develop, the mean survival time (without ...