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Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), together with cardiologists from Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro and the Spanish cardiovascular disease research network (CIBERCV), report that the new discovery makes it possible to identify high-risk patients early and refer them sooner to specialized heart failure units

From August 29 to September 1, Madrid hosts the European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC Congress) and the World Heart Federation World Congress of Cardiology

El ¹⁸FDG-PET is a type of positron emission tomography that measures how much energy the body’s cells consume.

Dr. Claudia Monaco, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

A new study led by the CNIC has identified imidazole propionate (ImP), a metabolite produced by gut bacteria, as a driver of atherosclerosis— as a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes

A team from the CNIC has discovered the key role of conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1) in atherosclerosis and has developed an experimental therapy with immunosuppressive nanoparticles that slows the progression of the disease in animal models.

Dr. Joseph Hill holds the James T. Willerson, M.D., Chair in Cardiovascular Disease and the Frank M. Ryburn Jr. Chair in Cardiac Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center