- Researchers analyzed genes and brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer’s and found that differences in brain immunometabolism – the interactions between the immune system and the ways cells create energy – may contribute to women’s increased risk for the disease and its severity https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2023/11/21/cleveland-clinic-research-finds-sex-differences-in-immune-response-and-metabolism-drive-alzheimers-disease/ 2 comments science
- Cleveland Clinic Research Identifies Sildenafil as Candidate Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease - Findings published in Nature Aging show 69% reduced likelihood of developing the disease https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/12/06/cleveland-clinic-research-identifies-sildenafil-as-candidate-drug-for-alzheimers-disease/ 11 comments science
- Obesity may increase risk of long-term complications of COVID-19, study shows. Among COVID-19 survivors, risk of hospital admission after the acute phase of the disease was 30 percent higher in patients with obesity https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/06/03/study-shows-obesity-may-increase-risk-of-long-term-complications-of-covid-19/ 10 comments science
- Researchers have found a significant increase in patients experiencing stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stress cardiomyopathy occurs in response to physical or emotional distress and causes dysfunction or failure in the heart muscle https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2020/07/09/cleveland-clinic-researchers-find-rise-in-broken-heart-syndrome-during-covid-19-pandemic/ 59 comments science
- Studies Reveal Role of Red Meat in Gut Bacteria, Heart Disease Development https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2018/12/10/cleveland-clinic-studies-reveal-role-of-red-meat-in-gut-bacteria-heart-disease-development/ 187 comments science
- Cleveland Clinic researchers compare bacterial composition in healthy vs. cancerous breast tissue and discover for the first time that healthy breast tissue contains more of the bacterial species Methylobacterium, a finding which could offer a new perspective in the battle against breast cancer. https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2017/10/05/cleveland-clinic-researchers-find-link-between-bacterial-imbalances-and-breast-cancer/ 5 comments science