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September 29: World Heart Day

September 29, 2022

World Heart Day is observed on September 29. Key facts World Heart Day is observed across the globe to raise awareness about the growing concerns regarding heart health, cardiovascular illnesses, the adverse effects of over-exercising on the heart etc. It also highlights the importance of heart care and its positive outcome on health. The theme ..

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Men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women: How and Why?

May 13, 2020

Initially there was a hypothesis that men might be more vulnerable to COVID-19 virus than women. However, the hypothesis has now been proved by a research published in the European Heart Journal. Highlights The ACE2 enzyme in the human body is the key factor that enables the COVID-19 to infect human cells. The study has ..

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Cause of Death in Cardiac Arrest

March 6, 2020

Scientists have identified a protein, integrin β1D, the loss of which is found to have a link to sudden death by cardiac arrest.  Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy or ARVC is a genetic disease that causes arrhythmias (a condition in which the heart beat is irregular). It is a rare condition that causes ..

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State of Global Air 2019

April 4, 2019

The US-based organisation Health Effects Institute (HEI) has released the State of Global Air 2019. The findings of the Study are: Overall long-term exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution contributed to nearly five million deaths from stroke, diabetes, heart attack, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease in 2017. Out of these, three million deaths ..

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