Science news articles about 'heart size'

... the high-salt rats that did not receive grapes. The researchers also measured the distortion of the heart size, weight and function that occurred over time – characteristics of heart failure – and ...

... would see a big difference in the short-term survival — which we did, most likely because of heart-size issues — but what was interesting was the substantial difference in the long term, as well." ...

... and ultimate failure of the heart is blocked and reversed, Hammock said. "Interestingly, the increase in heart size associated with extreme exercise does not increase levels of the epoxide hydrolase ...

... to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the developing heart. The findings are described in the advance online version of Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

... or murmurs. They also conducted an echocardiogram — a cardiac ultrasound, or ECHO — to measure heart size and pumping function and to check for faulty heart valves; and an electrocardiogram, or EKG, ...