Imperial Valley News Center
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.
Elevated blood pressure before pregnancy may increase chance of pregnancy loss
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- Written by Meredith Daly
Washington, DC - Elevated blood pressure before conception may increase the chances for pregnancy loss, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The authors conclude that lifestyle changes to keep blood pressure under control could potentially reduce the risk of loss. The study appears in Hypertension.
Getting to the Heart of Sleep
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- Written by Greg Breining
Rochester, Minnesota - Growing up in South Africa, Virend Somers and his two cousins would lie on a big bed with their grandfather as he told them stories. “We really enjoyed the stories. But what we also looked forward to - I say this with a bit of guilt now - is when he’d fall asleep. He would start snoring, and he’d stop breathing for these long periods. There’d be these incredible gasps when he’d breathe again. It was fascinating to us to study this from a child’s point of view. But we didn’t quite realize the implications,” he recalls.
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