A precursor of vitamin B1, benfotiamine, shields obviously short the blood vessels of smokers from the harmful effects of cigarette smoking from. The reported scientists according to Dr. Alin Stirban the Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, in a recent clinical study. For the scientists, the findings provide valuable information on the drug previously used mainly in diabetics.

The vitamin precursor benfotiamine has been installed successfully, especially in the treatment of diabetes-related nerve damage (neuropathy), a common sequela of diabetes. Several studies have shown that the drug inhibits the destructive effects of elevated blood glucose on nerves and blood vessels and associated with the neuropathy symptoms such as tingling, burning and aching feet relieves. Whether the provitamin can defuse even other toxic effects as the increased blood sugar, the research team led by Dr. Alin Stirban examined now by the example of smoking.

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First controlled dietary intervention with bold accented Mediterranean diet outclassed fat diet à la DGE

A Spanish working group was able to show for the first time on the basis of a controlled nutrition study that people with a high cardiovascular risk benefit from a healthy Mediterranean diet. In addition to fatty fish, meat, vegetables, fruit and wine, this also included an extra portion of nuts and olive oil. A third group was encouraged to eat a low-fat diet, as recommended by the DGE. The two groups with higher fat consumption received either 200 g (sponsored) nuts or 1 l (sponsored) olive oil per week. They showed a relative risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths that was reduced by around 30 percent, with the risk of stroke being reduced in particular. Urike Gonders mustard with it

That is remarkable, because this is the first study that back investigated a healthy, balanced, bold emphasized diet on so-called "hard endpoints", so to illnesses and deaths go. So far, only risk factors have always been studied, which, however, under fat and protein diets emphasized - also mostly outperformed by low-fat food à la DGE - such as the LOGI method.

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taking trace elements only after medical advice

Selenium does not protect against cardiovascular disease. Thereupon, the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE) out on the occasion of a recent meta-analysis. Moreover, apparently, there is a relationship between selenium intake and increased risk of diabetes, the DGE on. However, there may be a positive effect of this trace element in certain thyroid diseases, emphasizes the professional society. Similar to the intake of vitamin D and calcium, patients should be medical advice in any case previously.

Micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals are essential and widely used today in the form of dietary supplements. The trace element selenium not only protects the cell membrane, but is also involved in the regulation of metabolism. People take selenium in their diet - meat, seafood, fish, dairy and grain products are rich in selenium. "Selenium deficiency is - similar to a vitamin D deficiency - has been brought in recent years with a variety of diseases associated," says Professor Dr. med Dr. hc Helmut Schatz, Spokesman of the DGE from Bochum.. These include miscarriage, male infertility, mood swings, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease and inflammatory joint disease. Professor Treasure notes, however: "One indication that taking selenium prevent or improve these diseases can, were and are not."

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Protein C reduces the formation of cell toxins in the kidney / In diabetics, the natural protective mechanism is blocked, renal failure may be the result / protective protein stopped in animal models kidney damage / scientists from Heidelberg and Magdeburg publish in prestigious scientific journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America USA" (PNAS)

Around 40 percent of all diabetics develop after more than 20 years disease duration severe kidney damage over time lead to kidney failure. Scientists at the University Hospital Heidelberg and Magdeburg have now discovered that a naturally occurring protein slows the progression of kidney disease in animal studies and even stops. The team also clarified the molecular details of this protective effect: By the protein changes the genetic information of kidney cells at specific locations chemically, it interrupts a chain reaction that would lead to the accumulation of cell toxins, called oxygen free radicals. Emergence of less radical, the kidney cells stay healthy longer. In diabetics, this mechanism is restricted active. Using the results, which are now published online in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America USA" (PNAS), the signal could be used therapeutically in the future.

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Smoking increase with each cigarette you heart attack and stroke risk. But the converse also applies: Even if you stop at an advanced age smoking, reduces its risk already within a short time after leaving considerably. The scientists found the German Cancer Research Centre now out on the basis of a study of a population from the Saarland.

For their study, Professor Hermann Brenner and his colleagues analyzed data from 8.807 people aged 50 74 to years. "We have shown that smoking is a more than double the risk for cardiovascular diseases have as Non smoking. Former smokers are against almost as rarely affected as people the same age who have never smoked, "says Brenner. "In addition, smokers diagnosed significantly earlier than those not or no longer smoke." For example, a 60 years smoking has the heart attack risk of 79 years nonsmoker and the stroke risk of 69 years nonsmoker. Here, the tobacco dose and duration of consumption act on the risk of disease from the more cigarettes smoked per day over an extended period, the higher the risk.

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The daily consumption of two liters of green tea can in hereditary and age-related forms of incurable disease amyloidosis, in which malformed proteins accumulate in the heart, among other things, and eventually lead to heart failure, prevent further heart damage. This is supported by the results of a study of Amyloidosis Centre at Heidelberg University Hospital with 14 critically ill patients between 64 and 68 ages. Participants drank one year daily tea or took capsules with green tea extract. During this time encamped in the patients on average no more protein in the heart from, existing deposits were reduced to a small extent. A dramatic reduction in heart wall thickness with significant improvement in cardiac function, as previously reported by individual patients, did not occur. This is the first clinical study that examines the impact of a fixed amount of green tea on the course of the disease worldwide. The results are published in the journal "Clinical Research in Cardiology".

Hereditary and age-related amyloidosis is very rare. As with other amyloidosis forms to the body's own, but malformed proteins stored as insoluble fibers (amyloid) from in various organs and damage them permanently. The only treatment for some hereditary forms of the disease is liver transplantation, as in the liver, the most frequently altered protein transthyretin mainly arises. Otherwise, only the consequences, including the progressive heart failure, nerve damage or dysfunction of individual organs can be treated. There are no methods already deposited amyloid solve again. survive as long as the patients with hereditary or age-related amyloidosis, highly dependent on the extent of heart attack.

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UKL doctors implanted vagus nerve stimulators for the first time to treat heart failure

With the implantation of a vagus nerve stimulator, a completely new approach to therapy is being investigated for the first time in patients with cardiac insufficiency (cardiac insufficiency) at the Leipzig University Hospital. The therapy is based on the assumption that the vagus nerve - a nerve that connects the brain to the heart and is involved in controlling almost all internal organs - is not working properly. By implanting a so-called pulse generator, the activity of the vagus nerve could be increased by means of electrical signals and thus the heart's pumping capacity, which is weakened in cardiac insufficiency, could be improved. Vagus nerve stimulation could represent a sensible therapy option in the future, especially for patients who do not respond to drug treatment or to so-called resynchronization therapy with special cardiac pacemakers.

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High blood pressure is the cause of numerous cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death in industrialized countries. High salt consumption has long been considered a risk factor, but not every type of high blood pressure is dependent on salt consumption. This has been a mystery for a long time. However, new findings from Prof. Jens Titze (University of Vanderbilt, USA and University of Erlangen) now provide indications of previously unknown mechanisms. After that, the skin and the immune system play an important role in regulating the salt balance and high blood pressure, as he did at the 1st ECRC "Franz-Volhard" Symposium at the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) on September 7, 2012 in Berlin-Buch reported.

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“New German studies show that non-smoking protection laws have a very positive influence. From a cardiological point of view, the path of smoking bans and non-smoking protection should be consistently pursued in publicly accessible places. Georg Ertl (Würzburg), President of the German Society for Cardiology), at a press conference on the occasion of the European Cardiology Congress, at which 25 participants from 29 countries gathered in Munich from August 30.000 to 150.

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That the effect of coffee on blood pressure may be highly individual, may be genetic. "Fluctuations in the acute blood pressure response to coffee can partly with certain gene variants are explained (the Alpha2B-Adenorezeptoren)" investigator, said Prof. Giulia Renda (Chieti, Italy) at the congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC ) in Munich. "A higher increase in blood pressure as a result nutrigenetischer interactions in genetically susceptible people may suspend this higher coffee-related cardiovascular risk."

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German Heart Foundation warns of heart muscle inflammation as a result of flu or seemingly trivial infections / conservation is needed

The London Olympics are many safe to drive a welcome incentive, sports and plumb the band's performance limits. However, you should be healthy. Dangerous for the heart, it can be, if you feel sick or have weakened by a disease being involved in sports or other physical exertion exposes. Reason. Even in supposedly banal diseases such as flu or gastrointestinal infections may be affected and the heart muscle. In such myocarditis (heart muscle inflammation), which is often not noticed, is physical stress poison for the heart. In the worst case, sudden cardiac death, but also a massive heart failure may result.

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