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





