Slowing down muscle loss in heart failure patients

10 agosto 2015

Whenever cardiac insufficiency or serious heart defects worsen, such deterioration is often associated with a loss of muscular mass and muscular strength. Scientists have now succeeded in identifying the mechanism that underlies this disease, also known as cardiac cachexia. On the basis of these latest findings it may now be possible to influence the processes that strengthen and accelerate protein degradation in the body with the help of certain medications.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150810110755.htm

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