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FDA approves Veopoz as first treatment for children and adults with CHAPLE disease
The FDA has approved the use of Veopoz for treatment of adults and children aged 1 year and older with CHAPLE disease, also known as CD55-deficient protein-losing enteropathy.
Heart, other organs show mitochondrial damage after COVID-19 despite recovery of lungs
Following SARS-CoV-2 infection, mitochondrial function remained impaired in the heart, liver and kidneys, despite observed recovery in the lungs, according to a human autopsy and animal tissue study.
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VIDEO: Ultra-processed foods, metabolic adaptation among new research at Nutrition 2023
This year’s American Society for Nutrition Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting will take place in person in Boston from July 22 to 25.
Updated guidance highlights best practices for fetal echocardiography
Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1% of births per year in the United States, according to the CDC.
Excessive drinking tied to coronary plaque burden in Chinese men
Self-reported and genotype-predicted mean alcohol intake are associated with a higher burden of carotid plaque among a cohort of Chinese men, but not carotid intima-media thickness, researchers reported.
Evinacumab plus standard care estimated to add up to 12 years of life in those with HoFH
Evinacumab-dgnb was estimated to increase life expectancy an additional 12 years among patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia already on standard-of-care lipid-lowering therapies, researchers reported.
Gene therapy for inherited cardiomyopathy gains FDA fast track, orphan drug designation
Rocket Pharmaceuticals announced that the FDA has granted fast track and orphan drug designations to its adeno-associated virus-based gene therapy for the treatment of plakophilin-2-related arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
General practitioner-led HeFH screening, care may be cost-effective vs. standard care
An Australian general practitioner-led screening and care program for heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia was projected to be cost-effective with significant return on investment vs. standard care, researchers reported.
Alirocumab improves coronary plaque burden in asymptomatic patients with FH
PCSK9 inhibition with alirocumab, on top of high-intensity statin therapy, resulted in significant coronary plaque regression among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia and no clinical atherosclerotic CVD, researchers reported.
CVD risk highest among adults with obesity and genetically predicted low BMI
Adults with a genetically predicted high BMI may have a lower risk for cardiovascular disease than those whose obesity is linked more to environmental factors, according to a study published in eClinicalMedicine.
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