Cardiac patients at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) are getting healthier faster thanks to recently acquired state-of-the-art cardiopulmonary exercise monitoring equipment with ergospirometry (CPET). The Oxycon TM Mobile Device pairs portability with functionality, and packs a big...
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[Editor’s note: This article is an update of a previously published story.] Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide, yet it remains under-diagnosed and symptoms often go unrecognized. In July of this year, the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre published the results of a...
The first studies to scan the entire human genome for genetic variations associated with heart disease didn’t find what researchers expected. More than two-thirds of the newly identified risk variants had no relationship to known risk factors for heart diseases such as cholesterol, high blood...