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Detecting genes important in healing heart damage
Medicine - Health

Detecting genes important in healing heart damage

Researchers from the University of Bologna (Italy), part of an international team, have discovered a gene that is important in the healing of heart damage after a heart…

August 13, 2022
When did people start having heart attacks?
Health

When did people start having heart attacks?

Our ancestors began to have atherosclerosis and heart attack about two or three million years ago due to mutations in the gene that malaria is used to invade the human b…

July 29, 2019
What happens when a heart attack occurs?
Health

What happens when a heart attack occurs?

Each year about 7 million people worldwide die from cardiovascular diseases that cause heart attacks and other problems, stroke is the leading cause of death in the worl…

June 12, 2019
Unemployment increases the risk of heart attack
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Unemployment increases the risk of heart attack

Dr. Linda George, a Duke University scientist in the United States, and his colleagues followed 13,451 people for 20 years to understand the impact of unemployment on th…

December 18, 2018
Monkeys have a deadly heart attack
Animal world

Monkeys have a deadly heart attack

Local people found 12 monkeys when clearing land in a forest in the Kotwali Mohammadi region of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, Times of India reported on Septemb…

December 16, 2018