News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Arrhythmia Research. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our members' latest achievements, awards and honors.
10.25.2024Robert Bonow, MD, the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology and a leading authority on valvular heart disease, has been named a 2024 Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association.
09.26.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new way to measure heart contraction and electrical activity in engineered human heart tissues, according to findings published in Science Advances.
09.25.2024Since 2013, Feinberg medical students have provided cardiovascular disease risk assessments and health counseling to underserved community members across Chicago through the Keep Your Heart Healthy program.
09.12.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have conducted the largest lifestyle-intervention trial for U.S. South Asians, helping build a larger body of research to better represent the diverse and vastly underrepresented group.
08.16.2024High-intensity exercise does not increase the risk of sudden cardiac death in individuals with congenital long-QT syndrome, a genetic heart disorder, according to findings from a recent study published in Circulation.
08.12.2024Irregular heartbeats can raise a person’s risk of death even when they go unnoticed by traditional heart monitoring, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation.
07.22.2024Proteomic analysis of blood samples from pregnant individuals did not improve risk prediction of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy compared to current methods, underscoring the demand for more accurate prediction tools, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.
07.01.2024Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered how a single protein contributes to heart transplant tolerance in mice, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
06.24.2024Inflamed heart muscles can mount immune responses even in the absence of immune cells, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
06.11.2024Patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who received a new drug demonstrated improved oxygen uptake and exercise tolerance, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
05.30.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a way to regenerate damaged heart muscle cells in mice, a development which may provide a new avenue for treating congenital heart defects, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
05.08.2024Semaglutide, sold under brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, can help reduce heart failure symptoms and reduce heart failure hospitalizations in patients with obesity, according to a pair of studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine.
- 04.23.2024
Feinberg investigators have been selected to lead a $15 million American Heart Association research initiative studying the role of inflammation in heart disease.
04.15.2024Combining multiple heart disease drugs into a single “polypill” can lower bad cholesterol and blood pressure, boost medication adherence, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and death, according to a meta-analysis of recent clinical trials published in Nature Medicine.
02.23.2024A multidisciplinary team of investigators have engineered a more accurate model for studying the underlying mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and treatment response, according to findings published in Science Advances.
- 01.16.2024
Investigators led by Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, have discovered previously unknown protein interactions in the heart’s atrium that are critical for normal heart function, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- 12.19.2023
Two years after the FDA’s approval of semaglutide for chronic weight management, Northwestern Medicine scientists remain at the forefront of investigating the drug’s potential in helping patients who are overweight or have obesity who also have other preexisting health conditions.
12.01.2023A common diabetes medication may help some patients with treatment-resistant hypertension slightly lower their high blood pressure and lessen their risk of heart failure events such as stroke, according to an analysis of a clinical trial published in Circulation.
11.27.2023Patients with severe aortic stenosis who underwent a minimally invasive aortic valve replacement procedure had similar long-term survival rates compared to patients who underwent traditional surgery, according to a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
11.17.2023For the first time in 10 years, the American Heart Association has updated the model to predict someone’s risk of developing heart disease.
11.13.2023Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure-reducing drugs, by lowering their sodium intake, according to a new study published in JAMA.