Heart Health Month: How Cardiovascular Exercise Can Improve Your Overall Health More Than You Think
For our first heart health month blog, Christiane Wrann, PhD, DVM, from the Wrann Lab investigates how aerobic exercise and heart health contribute to our cognition.
Heart Health Month: Reducing the Risks for Pregnant Women with Heart Disease
Nandita Scott, MD, and the team at the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program are working to reduce the impact of cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy.
Heart Health Month: Reducing Health-Related Anxiety in Patients with Heart Disease
Mass General’s Ami Bhatt, MD, is studying how resilience programs can help reduce anxiety in patients with cardiac disease.
Heart Health Month: How Cardiac Imaging Can Give Us a Better Understanding of Heart Failure
Mass General’s Christopher Nguyen, PhD, is using advanced cardiac imaging to help develop new therapies for heart failure.
Heart Health Month: Looking to Nature for Better Ways to Preserve Donor Hearts
Mass General’s Shannon Tessier, PhD, is drawing inspiration from nature to devise new strategies to preserve donor hearts for transplant.
Heart Health Month: Untangling the Connections Between Stress and Cardiovascular Disease
Mass General researchers Michael Osborne, MD, and Ahmed Tawakol, MD, are studying how stress-related inflammation leads to heart disease.
ICON Center Explores How Essential Connections Between the Heart and the Brain Differ by Sex
The COVID-19 pandemic is only the most recent example of the central role that sex and gender play in major medical illness.
Heart Month 2021: Spotlighting Mass General Cardiology Researchers
Since every February is dedicated to heart health awareness, we reached out to some of our cardiology researchers to see what they’re working on currently.
Mass General and MIT Researchers Collaborate to Create the First “Beating” Biorobotic Hybrid Heart
Imaging data provided by Mass General researchers helped a team from MIT build a biorobotic heart that accurately reflects the way a real heart pumps blood.
Study Suggests Diabetes Interventions Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Factors Regardless of Genetic Predisposition to Coronary Artery Disease
Two strategies for reducing cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients appear to work equally well regardless of the patient’s genetic risk for coronary artery disease.
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