Fifteen people with advanced heart failure ... heart walls and strengthened pumping power over another three to six months. The cells were directed to differentiate into heart muscle cells and ...

Damaged hearts could be mended using small "patches" of heart muscle grown in ... and thickening the heart wall, which improved the pumping of the whole heart. Heart failure is the leading cause ...

Heart disease may run in your family but genes account for only 20-30 per cent of your risk of heart problems. The rest is ...

A heart can never rest. That creates a problem for a heart that has lost muscle tissue. “Skeletal muscle has a significant ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with advanced heart failure. In 2021, after all possible treat ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the thickness of the heart wall, helping it to contract better to pump blood ...

Slower gait speed, but not handgrip strength or muscle mass, is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular outcomes ...

The deaths are also partly the result of medical successes: People are living longer, and more people are surviving heart ...

More information: Sadi Loai et al, Abnormal skeletal muscle and myocardial vasoreactivity manifests prior to heart failure in a diabetic cardiomyopathy rat model, Discover Medicine (2025).

Despite the prevalence of heart disease, many people are still unclear about how genetics can impact heart disease.

Despite the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, many people are unclear about the role their genes play and how to lower their risk.