Originally published August 31 2005
MRI used to map “silent” heart changes that “remodel” the heart (press release)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Using magnetic resonance imaging technology, or MRI, to tag the work of millions of individual strands of heart muscle fibers, researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully mapped the smallest deformations inside the beating hearts of 441 middle-aged and elderly men and women who have either silently developed heart disease or remained healthy. The novel use of the MRI allowed the researchers to create a gridlike, three-dimensional, computer image of each heart and track gradual deformations during each heartbeat.
Hopkins findings, published in last week’s edition of the journal Circulation, are believed to be the first to tie specific “remodeling” changes in heart mass and volume to early and growing signs of trouble in any specific region of the muscle, specifically, the anterior wall (or front part) of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber.
MRI used to map “silent” heart changes that “remodel” the heart (press release)
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