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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-11-15

Cordio HearO® system an AI phone app detects worsening heart failure based on changes in patients’ voices

A smartphone app using artificial intelligence technology to detect changes in the voice of a person with heart failure predicted more than 75% of hospitalizations about three weeks before they happened, according to late-breaking science presented Nov. 13 at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023. The meeting, held Nov. 11–13, in Philadelphia, is a premier global exchange

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-11-14

Ground-breaking discovery could pave the way for new therapies to prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke

Researchers at the University of Leicester have discovered the mechanism by which cholesterol in our diet is absorbed into our cells. This discovery, which has just been published in the journal Science opens up new opportunities for therapeutic intervention to control cholesterol uptake that could complement other therapies and potentially save lives. The research, conducted with colleagues

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-11-13

Semaglutide 2.4 mg delivered a statistically significant 20% risk reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events

Semaglutide 2.4 mg (Wegovy®) cardiovascular outcomes data presented at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in New England Journal of Medicine At the American Heart Asoociation annual Scientific Session were announced the primary results of SELECT, its landmark phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes trial investigating the effects of once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg (Wegovy®) in

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-11-10

Leading cardiologists reveal new heart disease risk calculator

Cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health measures included in new PREVENT risk calculator, detailed in a new American Heart Association Scientific Statement Statement Highlights: A new calculator estimates a person’s risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 30 years by combining measures of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health for the first time, according to a

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-11-05

Study finds that 20–25 minutes of daily physical activity may offset death risk from prolonged sitting

Clocking up just 20–25 minutes of physical activity every day may be enough to offset the heightened risk of death from a highly sedentary lifestyle, suggests research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. But higher daily tallies of physical activity are linked to a lower risk, irrespective of the amount of time spent

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-09-21

Severe Vibrio vulnificus Infections in the United States Associated with Warming Coastal Waters: CDC issues Health Alert

SummaryThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to: BackgroundVibrio are bacteria that cause an estimated 80,000 illnesses each year in the United States. About a dozen species of Vibrio are pathogenic to humans. V. parahaemolyticus causes the most infections in the United States, accounting for about 40% of reported cases

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2023-09-09

Exercise-Induced Hormone Irisin May Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Plaque and Tangle Pathology in the Brain

Key Takeaways Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two major hallmarks of the condition—the generation of amyloid beta deposits followed by tau tangles—have now used their model to investigate whether the exercise-induced muscle hormone irisin affects amyloid beta pathology. As reported in the journal Neuron,

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