World Heart Rhythm Week (June 6th – 12th) is dedicated to promoting the awareness of how to Detect, Protect, Correct and Perfect all heart rhythm disorders. This year World Heart Rhythm Week falls between 6th to 12th June. Since 2004, when Arrhythmia Alliance successfully lobbied for a new Chapter on Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death […]
The news that there were 33,000 avoidable deaths following heart attacks in England and Wales is truly shocking and highlights the epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the UK. According to new research published last week in the European Heart Journal, six in seven of the 40,000 non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) heart attack patients a […]
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For a long time, it was thought that the heart muscle was post-mitotic – meaning the heart cells (that are responsible for the contraction of the heart, the cardiomyocytes) you were born with, you died with; there was no replenishment of new cardiomyocytes throughout life. In fact, over the last two decades, scientists have shown that the heart’s cardiomyocytes can […]