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    Los adolescentes que duermen menos de 8 horas tienen más probabilidades de tener sobrepeso u obesidad
    Research
    29 Aug 2022
    Insufficient sleep in teenagers is associated with overweight and obesity

    Excess weight and metabolic syndrome are associated with cardiovascular disease, suggesting that health promotion programs in schools should teach good sleep habits
    Imagen de histología que muestra la comparación del tamaño del corazón de un ratón normal (izquierda) y un ratón deficiente para la proteína MKK6 (derecha).
    Research
    9 Aug 2022
    eLife: CNIC scientists uncover opposing roles of p38 proteins in cardiac hypertrophy

    A new study published in eLife shows that inhibition of p38γ/δ is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but that this strategy has yet to be explored because of the lack of specific inhibitors for these p38 family members
    Juan Domingo Gisbert
    About the CNIC
    24 Jun 2022
    Juan Domingo Gisbert: "Combining CNIC and BBRC data will allow us to answer questions of great relevance for the prevention of Alzheimer's in healthy subjects"

    Juan Domingo Gispert López, head of the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center and CNIC (Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research) researcher
    Valentín Fuster
    About the CNIC
    4 Apr 2022
    Prestigious Award Named in Honor of Valentin Fuster, During American College of Cardiology Scientific Session

    CNIC leader will be recognized for his exceptional achievements at the 71st annual conference
    About the CNIC
    26 Jan 2022
    Dr. Valentín Fuster, awarded for his social commitment as a disseminator and promoter of healty habits among the population
    Representative transmurality map from an 3D-upsampled model with a short axis view at high-magnification to illustrate the 3D methodology for transmural-based scar assessment from images obtained with conventional 2D delayed gadolinium-enhanced CMR
    Research
    28 Sep 2021
    Scientific Reports: 3D mapping of post-infarction scarring increases the prognostic potential of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

    This innovative technology may provide an efficient approach in clinical practice after manual or automatic segmentation of myocardial borders in a small number of conventional 2D slices and automatic scar detection
    About the CNIC
    6 Aug 2021
    RREBOOT, on a mission to change clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of heart attack survivors

    CNIC and the Mario Negri Institute in Milan (Italy) coordinate REBOOT, a project that aims to study whether treatment with beta-blockers is beneficial for patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction

    Grupo de la Dra. Priori
    Research
    21 Jul 2021
    A CNIC project receives funding from the ”la Caixa” Foundation to investigate a type of fatal tachycardia

    The research team led by project leader Dr Silvia Priori is confident that the discovery of new therapies will reduce the mortality linked to this disease and could also reduce arrhythmias in heart failure patients

    Borja Ibáñez
    About the CNIC
    10 Jun 2021
    Dr Borja Ibáñez wins the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Award for his work in the fields of nutrition and food science

    The €35,000 awarded by the foundation in each category is for research that deepens knowledge of the relationship between nutrition, food and health
    About the CNIC
    9 Jun 2021
    Article by Dr Sabio's group receives the Antoni Esteve Foundation Research Award

    The study, published in Nature in 2019, revealed relevant data about the involvement of the protein p38gamma in the development of the main type of primary liver cancer, which affects over a million people a year worldwide