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Overactive immune cells can worsen heart failure – targeting them could offer new treatments

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par Shyam Bansal, Associate Professor of Medicine, Penn State

Around 64 million people worldwide suffer from heart failure, and nearly half die within the first five years of diagnosis due to a lack of effective treatments to stop the disease from getting worse.

Heart failure occurs when the heart’s ability to pump blood drops to less than 40%. Most available treatments tend to focus on reducing the effort necessary for the heart…

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