Study uncovers the role of polygenic risk scores in hypertension management

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have new insights into the role of genetic risk scores in

Extracorporeal blood purification can cut cardiac surgery-associated AKI

For patients undergoing nonemergent cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), use of an extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) device is associated with a lower rate of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI), according to

Like father, like daughter

When they become fathers, men who have an unhealthy, high-cholesterol diet can cause increased risk of cardiovascular disease, or CVD, in their daughters, a mouse study has found. Source link