How a Mediterranean-style diet may reduce heart failure in the aged

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) In mouse experiments, researchers have shown how aging and excess dietary fat create signals that lead to heart failure after a heart attack. Clarifying the mechanism of this harmful pathway is important because nearly 5 million people in the United States suffer heart failure as an age-related disease following heart attacks. Knowledge of the dysfunctional lipid signaling that triggers heart inflammation and heart failure could be essential to discovering therapeutic treatments.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news