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PET Scan can Detect Heart Disease Risk Factors in Sleep Apnea Patients
5 monthes ago - By Medindia Health
Obstructive sleep apnea can lead to high blood pressure, stroke, chronic heart failure and other cardiovascular problems. Therefore, patients with OSA, should receive PET myocardial perfusion imaging as early as possible to exclude coronary microcirculatory dysfunction.
Read more ...Scientists investigate genomic pillars behind transition from healthy hearts to heart failure
5 monthes ago - By News Medical
Scientists investigating heart failure have been limited to studying diseased heart tissue in the lab - understandably, as people don't tend to pluck out a healthy heart for the sake of research.
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Researchers from McGill University Sainte Anne de Bellevue in Canada conducted a scoping review to provide an overview of the latest evidence from studies regarding the impact...
More than 140,000 people were killed by measles last year
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