News tagged with left ventricle

Marathons damage the hearts of less fit runners for up to 3 months

Is running a marathon good for you or can it damage the heart? A team of researchers and runners from the Heart and Stroke Foundation have come up with a practical way of answering the question. They used data from magnetic ...

Medicine & Health / Health

Oct 25, 2010 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Heart defect likely killed 13th-century teen saint: study

A teenage saint whose 750-year-old mummified body lay for centuries in a church in central Italy probably died of a congenital heart defect, scientists said Thursday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 10, 2010 | 3 / 5 (7) | 0

Experts call for urgent action to tackle strong links between impotence and heart disease

International experts are calling for all men experiencing impotence to undergo thorough medical assessments, after an extensive review showed that a significant proportion of men with erectile dysfunction ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

May 19, 2010 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

A change of heart keeps bears healthy while hibernating

Hibernating, it turns out, is much more complicated than one might think.

Biology / Plants & Animals

Feb 07, 2011 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Mexico City air pollution adversely affects the hearts of young people

A post-mortem study of the hearts of 21 young people in Mexico City has found that the heart begins to show the adverse effects of air pollution at a young age and that tiny bits of inactivated bacteria that hitch a ride ...

Medicine & Health / Health

Apr 28, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Transplanted adult stem cells provide lasting help to injured hearts

Human adult stem cells injected around the damage caused by a heart attack survived in the heart and improved its pumping efficiency for a year in a mouse model, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

May 10, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken heart more than previously thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken the heart more than previously thought and may increase the risk of heart failure, according to research reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart ...