Another active area of research in the laboratory focuses on unraveling the mechanisms behind maladaptive, or pathological, and adaptive, or physiological, cardiac hypertrophy. In response to certain ...

Aim Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with extreme anthropometry. While upper normal limits exist for maximal left ventricular ...

Persistent smoking from age 10 through 24 years is associated with increased odds of premature cardiac and structural injury.

More information: Xiang Nie et al, lncRNA ZNF593-AS inhibits cardiac hypertrophy and myocardial remodeling by upregulating ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy, which is a powerful, independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, also occurs frequently in patients with ADPKD. Both hypertension and left ...

Cardiovascular system Cardiac hypertrophy; increased stroke volume (SV) at rest and during exercise; decrease in resting heart rate (HR); increase in cardiac output (Q); capillarisation at the ...

BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major health concern. Pathological stimuli and interactions between cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) and other cell types may lead to ...

Professor Xavier Palomer points out that “together, all these processes lead to extracellular cardiac remodelling, ...

Sneaking cigarettes might seem like a harmless preteen rite of passage, but it's more dangerous than you think, a new study ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a prevalent inherited cardiac disease marked by left ventricular hypertrophy, often due ...

Dr Nighat Ali Shah, head of Ward 9-B Gynaecology and Obstetrics at JPMCCardiovascular disease is a leading cause of maternal ...