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Welcome to The Beat, a podcast from the Heart Foundation that unpacks the latest research, news, and trends shaping Australia's heart health.
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Growing Heart Valve Tissue in the Lab (opens the original)
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What if we could grow human heart valve tissue in the lab and use it to better understand heart valve disease? Researchers at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute have developed 3D heart valve-like tissue using pluripotent stem cells. Unlike traditional models that grow valve cells on flat plastic surfaces, the new model more closely replicates the three-dimensional environment of a real heart valve. In this episode of The Beat, Dr Holly Voges explains how the team created the tissue, how t
Statins After 70 - Do They Really Help? (opens the original)
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Should you take a statin after 70? Until now, there hasn't been much evidence to answer that question in otherwise healthy older people. Now, a major Australian study led by researchers at Monash University has provided some important new evidence. The STAREE trial followed almost 10,000 Australians aged 70 and over for almost six years. Researchers found that people taking the statin atorvastatin had a 30 per cent lower risk of a major cardiovascular event, including heart attack and stroke. Bu
Why Children Should Have Their Blood Pressure Checked From Age Seven (opens the original)
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High blood pressure isn't just an adult condition. New Australian guidelines now recommend children have their blood pressure checked from age seven, with experts warning thousands of Australian children could be living with undiagnosed hypertension. In this episode of The Beat , Dr Nick Larkins , Paediatrician at Perth Children's Hospital and Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, joins the Heart Foundation's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Garry Jennings , to explain why early scre
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