Imperial Valley News Center
When heart disease runs in the family, exercise may be best defense
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- Written by Darcy Spitz
Dallas, Texas - Exercise may be the best way to keep hearts healthy – and it works even for people with a genetic pre-disposition for heart disease, according to new findings in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation.
Study found people would rather pop a pill or sip tea than exercise to treat high blood pressure
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- Written by Cathy Lewis
Arlington, Virginia - In a survey to assess treatment preferences for high blood pressure, respondents were more likely to choose a daily cup of tea or a pill over exercise, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.
Genetic test may improve post-stent treatment, outcome
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- Written by Carrie Thacker
Dallas, Texas - Using genetic testing to inform which blood thinner to use following a procedure to open narrowed blood vessels resulted in significantly fewer complications among patients, according to new research in Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, an American Heart Association journal.
Heart defects in infant may predict heart problems in birth mother later in life
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- Written by Bridgette McNeill
Dallas, Texas - Women who give birth to infants with congenital heart defects may have an increased risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations later in life, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
NIH completes in-depth genomic analysis of 33 cancer types
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- Written by Sheena Faherty, Ph.D.
Washington, DC - Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have completed a detailed genomic analysis, known as the PanCancer Atlas, on a data set of molecular and clinical information from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer.
New coronavirus emerges from bats in China, devastates young swine
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- Written by Ken Pekoc
Washington, DC - A newly identified coronavirus that killed nearly 25,000 piglets in 2016-17 in China emerged from horseshoe bats near the origin of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in 2002 in the same bat species. The new virus is named swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV). It does not appear to infect people, unlike SARS-CoV which infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774. No SARS-CoV cases have been identified since 2004.
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