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For a second time, the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute is offering a prestigious five-year Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Gender Equity Fellowship

A major grant to advance the use of metabolic and genetic scoring to help in the early identification and treatment of heart disease has been awarded to...

Date Time Understanding atrial enlargement to prevent atrial fibrillation Baker Institute researchers have led a scientific review into atrial enlargement — expansion of the upper chambers of the heart — to highlight an area that requires greater research and understanding to improve atrial fibrillation prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The review, published today in one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed cardiovascular journals — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — examined atrial enlargement associated with cardiac disease in comparison to atrial enlargement i...

Screening people for their genetic disease risk could substantially increase the number of prevented cardiovascular events than traditional risk factors...