Novel mechanism behind aldosterone-induced heart damage uncovered
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
When the heart begins to fail, the body does everything in its power to fix the situation. But sometimes, those compensatory mechanisms ultimately do more harm than good. Such is the case with the adrenal hormone aldosterone, which stimulates the heart to pump harder, causing greater damage to the heart muscle. But now, researchers are closer than ever to putting the brakes on that process.