Month: February 2017

New Clues to Causes of Heart Failure

Penn Study Finds New Clues to Causes of Heart Failure Signaling proteins in cells lining the heart are crucial heart for attack recovery – new clues to causes of heart failure Of the more than 700,000 Americans who suffer a heart attack each year, about a quarter go on to develop heart failure. Scientists don’t […]

February 7, 2017

Sudden death warning over faulty gene

Faulty Gene. Hundreds of thousands at risk of sudden death from silent heart conditions   Number of people living with a deadly faulty gene legacy grossly underestimated   Around 620,000 people in the UK are carrying a faulty gene that puts them at high risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death, according to […]

February 1, 2017