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June 2011Advance in cardiac medicine over the past 50 years have led to improvements in survival for patients with all types of heart disease and disorders. -
June 2011Treating chronic disease is one of the most common and costly challenges facing Canada—and much of the developed world—today. -
April 2011The international CARDIoGRAM consortium has discovered 13 new genetic variants associated with increased risk for heart disease. -
April 2011In the largest-ever collaborative study of its kind, a team of cardiovascular genetics researchers from around the world have identified 13 new genetic variants associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). -
April 2011The trend toward a heavier population is impacting care and research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. -
April 2011Canada is in the midst of fundamental demographic shifts that are not only changing the face of the country but greatly impacting the nature of the cardiovascular patient population. -
February 2011The Heart Institute’s highly successful telehome monitoring program is marking its 1,000th patient. -
February 2011In December 2010, McGraw Hill publishers released the 13th edition of Hurst’s The Heart, one of the essential texts in cardiovascular medicine for more than 40 years. -
February 2011The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have named the RAFT trial among the top 10 research advances in heart disease in 2010. -
February 2011Late last year, Statistics Canada released new figures detailing the leading causes of death in the country. Based on 2007 data, the report noted that cancer and heart disease were the two leading causes of death for Canadians. -
December 2010Thirty-one years ago, it was not known that the heart produces hormones. That changed in 1981 when Adolfo de Bold, PhD, discovered that muscle cells in the atria of the heart secrete atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), an essential hormone that regulates fluid volume, blood pressure and sodium. -
May 2007UOHI researchers have identified a stretch of DNA that increases risk of heart disease by up to 40 per cent regardless of other established risk factors