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Heart attack risk increases at the start of the workweek

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Heart attack risk spikes on mondays.

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Health

Heart damage from cancer drugs traced to specific cause

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Potential drug targets for heart failure therapies and cancer-related heart damage.

Smartphone ECG could be used in A&E to detect serious heart conditions
Health

Smartphone ECG could be used in A&E to detect serious heart conditions

Pranjal Malewar

Palpitations make you feel like your heart is beating too hard or too fast, skipping a beat, or fluttering. They can be bothersome or...

Statins reduce heart attack and stroke risk in older people
Health

Statins reduce heart attack and stroke risk in older people

Pranjal Malewar

Statins work by lowering cholesterol. They are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the UK, based on a wealth of evidence that...

UK consumes 13,000 tonnes of chocolate each week
Social Science

UK consumes 13,000 tonnes of chocolate each week

Pranjal Malewar

Chocolate is a passion! You don’t just nibble or eat chocolate; you savor, experience, live, and, at times, reluctantly share it. A new survey by...

People are ready to leave the UK if there was a chocolate ban
Social Science

People are ready to leave the UK if there was a chocolate ban

Pranjal Malewar

Chocolate is on the tip of everyone's tongue – not only as a gently melting treat. Every time we taste chocolate, it is a wonderful...

Study in Birmingham could lead to better detection of people with irregular heart rhythm
Health

Study in Birmingham could lead to better detection of people with irregular heart rhythm

Pranjal Malewar

Atrial fibrillation (also called AFib or AF) is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and...

Study offers possible explanation for broken heart syndrome
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Study offers possible explanation for broken heart syndrome

Amit Malewar

BHF scientists have recently made a key revelation the body’s own immune system plays a vital role in the mysterious heart condition i.e., broken heart...

Fish genes hold key to repairing damaged hearts
Health

Fish genes hold key to repairing damaged hearts

Pranjal Malewar

A surprising discovery by the British Heart Foundation suggests that Mexican tetra fish can repair its heart after damage. In particular, a gene called lrrc10 may...

High blood pressure smoking and diabetes increase heart attack risk more in women
Health

High blood pressure, smoking and diabetes increase heart attack risk more in women

Pranjal Malewar

Men usually have a more serious danger of heart assault than ladies, yet a few investigations have proposed that specific hazard factors have a greater...

How ambulance crews can improve heart attack diagnosis?
Health

How ambulance crews can improve heart attack diagnosis?

Pranjal Malewar

Scientists at the Kingston University and St George's, University of London, in collaboration with Swansea University and the University of Leeds have carried out a...

New tool to spot deadly sepsis in people who have heart failure
Health

New tool to spot deadly sepsis in people who have heart failure

Pranjal Malewar

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection. It occurs when chemicals released into the bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses...

Does loneliness increase your risk of heart attack or stroke?
Health

Does loneliness increase your risk of heart attack or stroke?

Pranjal Malewar

According to a new stroke. The study was conducted on 181,000 people for between three and 21 years. Longitudinal studies can be good at establishing...

Scientists reveal the way blood clots reduce the chance of infection
Health

Scientists reveal the way blood clots reduce the chance of infection

Pranjal Malewar

Researchers have discovered that a protein film forms quickly over an injury as a major aspect of the natural clotting procedure, and it gives...

millennials
Social Science

Fears are wreaking havoc on millennials lives

Pranjal Malewar

According to a new study, millennials are more fearful of having no Wi-Fi (24%) than they are of snakes (16%). The study suggests that 21st-century fears that...

Heart attack, conceptual image for heart diseases. 3D illustration
Health

Heart attacks are more deadly during colder months

Amit Malewar

Analyzing data from almost 4,056 people who received treatment for a heart attack in four separate years, scientists found that the patients who had a...

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Health

New blood test to diagnose heart attacks

Pranjal Malewar

Patients with heart attacks have cardiac myosin-binding protein C protein in high concentrations (cMyC) of the time for an on-the-spot diagnosis. Now, scientists at the King’s College London...

Child scattered toys. Mess in the house. a lot of children. the little girl plays in the room.
Health

Mothers with four children have increased risk of heart disease

Pranjal Malewar

Gathering data from over 8,000 White and African-American women from the United States, aged 45-64 years, scientists found that mother who has 5 or more children, is...

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Health

Green tea molecule could prevent heart attacks

Pranjal Malewar

Scientists from Lancaster University and the University of Leeds have discovered that a compound found in green tea could prevent deaths from heart attacks and...

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