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Chronic stress is known to have a negative impact on cardiovascular health. Determining if stress affects heart health through changes in gut bacteria and if exercise can provide protection is the goal of a $4.3 million grant researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine received recently from the American Heart Association (AHA).
The American Heart Association has named The Ohio State University, the University of California Davis and Virginia Commonwealth University as awardees of $15 million scientific research grants to teams to study the mechanisms of how chronic stress affects cardiovascular health.
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation's top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. A new American Heart Association-funded center at the Medical College of Georgia is working to better understand the bidirectional dynamic, including how to intervene when, for example, cancer treatment itself results in heart problems. MCG, the state's public medical school, is one of four centers nationally funded by the $11 million AHA Strategically Focused Research Networ...
Boston University taps Shimmer wearables for brain studies The trials, funded by the American Heart Association, will harness the company’s Verisense wearable sensor platform to examine brain-heart health links. Shimmer Research, a provider of wearable sensors and technology, announced that Boston University’s (BU) School of Medicine will use its Verisense wearable sensing platform to monitor motion, activity and sleep in two brain health studies. The research is funded by the American Heart Association (AHA) in collaboration with philanthropist Bill Gates. Geo...