heart failure

In an international study, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes could also benefit a wide range of patients with heart failure. A large-scale clinical trial showed that the drug dapagliflozin reduced the risk of a cardiovascular death, or worsening heart failure, regardless of ejection fraction. Ejection fraction is a…

Local researchers have discovered that a diabetes drug can help with heart failure.

The HeartBrothers Foundation works to change the statistics that show some minority groups, especially Black people, experience heart disease at higher rates than other populations.

Heart disease hits Black people at a higher rate than almost any other group in America, but it’s a problem that doesn’t need to exist, and a local group is working to change the statistics. For Kyree Miller, the fight to help communities of color improve their heart health is very personal. He knows what it feels like to...