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Overactive immune cells can worsen heart failure – targeting them could offer new treatments

  • Written by Shyam Bansal, Associate Professor of Medicine, Penn State
Overactive immune cells can worsen heart failure – targeting them could offer new treatmentsHeart failure affects millions of people around the world.Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images

Around 64 million people worldwide suffer from heart failure, and nearly half die within the first five years of diagnosis due to a lack of effective treatments to stop the disease from getting worse.

Heart failure occurs when the heart’s ability...

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