Details of our study protocol have been previously described. 8 In brief, this community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in XinYang County, located in the middle region of China from 2004 to ...

Specific genes are responsible for determining cell growth and differentiation during the early stages of cardiac development. Reactivation of these genes later in life can lead to an abnormal ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an abnormal thickening of the left ventricular myocardium that occurs as an adaptive mechanism to increased afterload. The left ventricular myocytes hypertrophy ...

A developmental cause of adult-onset cardiac hypertrophy, a dangerous thickening of the heart muscle that can lead to heart failure and death, has been identified by researchers. They say that the new ...

A randomized controlled study recently published in Ethnicity & Disease in their Autumn 2019 Hypertension issue found that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique helps to prevent abnormal ...

The human heart is like a sponge, able to expand and grow, increasing its capacity to take up blood. In theory, an enlarged heart can also squeeze out more blood, with more power, than an ...

Scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) say they have cast a fresh light on a key molecular regulator in the heart known as FoxO1. In a paper “Genomic Binding ...

A randomized controlled study recently published in Ethnicity & Disease in their Autumn 2019 Hypertension issue found that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique helps to prevent abnormal ...

Your heart is divided into a left and a right side. The right side of your heart pumps blood to your lungs to receive oxygen. The left side pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of your body. Right ...

In the previous issue of the Journal, Mulè et al. 1 report the results of a cross-sectional study aimed at assessing (1) plasma aldosterone concentrations and left ventricular mass (LVM) in essential ...