Australian adults living with cardiovascular disease and diabetes are encouraged to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and take whichever vaccine they are.
Screening people for their genetic disease risk could substantially increase the number of prevented cardiovascular events than traditional risk factors.
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New cancer drug could also treat heart disease
Scientists have repurposed a cancer drug to show it can help reduce plaque build-up caused by diabetes, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.
Atherosclerosis the build-up of fatty plaques on artery walls that can restrict blood flow and rupture causing dangerous blood clots is far more common in people with diabetes, leaving them with a much greater risk of cardiovascular disease than the general population.
More than 1.5 million Australians have diabetes, and despite many years of improvements in therapies that lower blood glucose or address other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, diabetes continues to approximately double the risk of developing or dying from CVD. A drug already in development could be welcome news for these high-risk Australians.
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Using data to solve biological problems
PhD student Gavriel Olshansky‘s research is at the intersection of mathematics and medical science finding better ways to identify patterns in large biological data sets that can help us pinpoint markers of disease.
Gavriel is one of the first students to be enrolled in the new Baker Department for Cardiometabolic Health at the Melbourne Medical School, a partnership between the Baker Institute and the University of Melbourne. While his background is in mathematics and statistics, he is no stranger to the lab, starting at the Institute two years ago, first as a volunteer and then as a bioinformatician.
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