New drug for heart attack damage

Heart attack can leads to heart failure. During heart attack, heart suffers enlargement and scarring. Hormone
used by body builders can prevent scarring and enlargement of heart after attack.

Cork University Hospital examined 50 heart attack patients and discovered that the heart of those that used higher dose of IGF1 -( insulin-like growth factor) prevented them from experiencing heart failure.

Different people were selected to use two different low doses of IGF1, after using the drug, their scans results shows that 16 people that used the drug did not have enlargement of heart muscle and scarring after two months.

Repairing the heart after attack can prevent heart failure, and this will prevent sudden death of affected people, the research has been recognized and peer reviewed by the European Society of Cardiology.

Graying hair increases the risk of heart disease

An observational study presented at the EuroPrevent 2017 conference of the European Society of Cardiology suggests that the risk of heart disease is high for adult men with more gray hair.

The researchers examined 545 adult men with coronary artery disease and divided them into several groups according to amount of their gray hair.

Level of gray hair is gradeded into four: 1 for pure black hair, 2 for more black hair than white, 3 for equal amount of black and white, 4 for more white than black hair and 5 for pure white hair.

Multivariate regression analyses was used and discovered that age, level of gray hair, high blood pressure, and dyslipidemia predicted atherosclerosis coronary artery disease differently.

Patients with coronary heart disease had greater whitening grade level, hair graying shows real age and indicates cardiovascular risk.