Published Study Supports MyoKardia ’s Wrist-Worn Biosensor
MyoKardia’s said data on its wrist-worn digital health device was published in an article titled, “Machine Learning Detection of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (oHCM) Using a Wearable Biosensor,†in the Nature Partner Journal, Digital Medicine.
The South San Francisco-based company said results from an exploratory study provided encouraging evidence of the potential for a wrist-worn biosensor to screen for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
The study demonstrated that continuous monitoring using a wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) digital health devic...
Source: MDDI - June 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: MDDI Staff Tags: Business Cardiovascular Source Type: news
AHA News: This Faulty Gene May Help Predict Heart Muscle Disease
THURSDAY, June 20, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- The diagnosis of a serious heart condition known as dilated cardiomyopathy often can lead doctors to run genetic tests that help determine whether the disease stems from a faulty... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Being overweight as a teen may be associated with cardiomyopathy in adulthood
(University of Gothenburg) The risk of developing cardiomyopathy, which often leads to heart failure, increased in adult Swedish men who were even mildly overweight around age 18. The risk steadily increased as weight increased, even among those who started out at a normal weight, according to a study published in Circulation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New HRS Consensus on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy New HRS Consensus on Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
A new consensus statement provides guidance on evaluation and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, including clinically relevant information on genetics and disease mechanisms.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - May 30, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Oligogenic inheritance of a human heart disease involving a genetic modifier
Complex genetic mechanisms are thought to underlie many human diseases, yet experimental proof of this model has been elusive. Here, we show that a human cardiac anomaly can be caused by a combination of rare, inherited heterozygous mutations. Whole-exome sequencing of a nuclear family revealed that three offspring with childhood-onset cardiomyopathy had inherited three missense single-nucleotide variants in the MKL2, MYH7, and NKX2-5 genes. The MYH7 and MKL2 variants were inherited from the affected, asymptomatic father and the rare NKX2-5 variant (minor allele frequency, 0.0012) from the unaffected mother. We used CRISPR...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 29, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Gifford, C. A., Ranade, S. S., Samarakoon, R., Salunga, H. T., de Soysa, T. Y., Huang, Y., Zhou, P., Elfenbein, A., Wyman, S. K., Bui, Y. K., Cordes Metzler, K. R., Ursell, P., Ivey, K. N., Srivastava, D. Tags: Genetics, Medicine, Diseases r-articles Source Type: news
Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Heart Issue Linked?
The study shows that the risk of a particular kind of heart failure that happens in pregnancy, peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), is five times higher in women who have fertility treatment, (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - May 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Higher BMI in Male Teens Tied to Cardiomyopathy in Adulthood
TUESDAY, May 28, 2019 -- Increased body mass index (BMI) in adolescence is associated with an increased risk for cardiomyopathy in adulthood among men, according to a study published online May 28 in Circulation.
Josefina Robertson, M.D., from the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - May 28, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Fertility Treatment Tied to Deadly Heart Problem in Pregnancy: Study
TUESDAY, May 28, 2019 -- The risk of a pregnancy-related type of heart failure is five times higher for women who undergo fertility treatment than those who conceive naturally, a new study says.
The condition is called peripartum cardiomyopathy... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Being overweight as a teen may be associated with higher risk of heart muscle disease in adulthood
(American Heart Association) The risk of developing cardiomyopathy, which often leads to heart failure, increased in adult Swedish men who were even mildly overweight around age 18.The risk steadily increased as weight increased, even among those who started out at a normal weight. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New Technology Saves Those With Genetic Heart Disease
BOSTON (CBS) – We’ve all heard the tragic tales of teens and young adults collapsing while playing sports from a rare heart condition. Now, a father-son team in Boston has developed a strategy to save those patients most at risk.
“It was devastating.” Kevin Whelan recalled the moment he learned his oldest brother, Kyle, collapsed and died. He was only 26 years old.
Kyle had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a genetic disease of the heart and the most common cause of sudden death in otherwise healthy young people.
But Kyle wasn’t the only one in the family with it. His father and all three sons had ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Source Type: news
New Strategy Saving Those With Genetic Heart Disease
BOSTON (CBS) – We’ve all heard the tragic tales of teens and young adults collapsing while playing sports from a rare heart condition. Now, a father-son team in Boston has developed a strategy to save those patients most at risk.
“It was devastating.” Kevin Whelan recalled the moment he learned his oldest brother, Kyle, collapsed and died. He was only 26 years old.
Kyle had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a genetic disease of the heart and the most common cause of sudden death in otherwise healthy young people.
But Kyle wasn’t the only one in the family with it. His father and all three sons had ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch Syndicated Local Dr. Mallika Marshall Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Source Type: news
Heart scan 'could pick up signs of sudden death risk'
Researchers used detailed images of the heart to look for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breakthrough as scientists can now spot leading cause of cardiac arrest in young people
Oxford University scientists have found a way to use MRI scanners to picture the arrangement of muscle fibres in the heart to pick out warning signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother's heartbreak as one of her poorly twins received a new heart while the other is waiting
Mila Costa's identical two year olds, Benjamin and Enzo, have a heart defect, dilated cardiomyopathy. Doctors in Brazil gave Enzo a new heart and he has since bounced back. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tafamidis for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Tafamidis for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy
A new drug for the treatment of transthyretin cardiomyopathy looks to be a game-changer; but will it benefit all TTR patients?European Heart Journal (Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Radiology Headlines - May 13, 2019 Category: Radiology Tags: Cardiology Journal Article Source Type: news
