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Patients who present with persistent atrial fibrillation at diagnosis are more likely to have certain risk factors as compared with patients with occasional atrial fibrillation (AFib). The findings, led by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute …

Curious to know if you’re at risk for two common heart conditions? Your doctor may want to check the shape of your heart. Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have discovered that patients who have round hearts …

Internationally recognized cardiologist in heart transplantation Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of Advanced Heart Disease and the Heart Transplant Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, and chief medical officer of the California Heart …

CNN.com recently interviewed Christine Albert, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute, and KPCC’s AirTalk recently interviewed Sumeet Chugh, MD, medical director of the Heart Rhythm Center at the Smidt …

In a new study evaluating the Mediterranean diet and adverse pregnancy outcomes, investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found that women who conceived while adhering to the anti-inflammatory diet had a significantly lower risk …

Science has long shown that men are at greater risk for developing atrial fibrillation (AFib) than women; but it has never been fully understood why women would be protected from developing the condition. New research from the Smidt Heart Institute …

Researchers in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are one step closer to identifying patients at highest risk for developing sudden cardiac death—an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes it to stop beating.To identify those at …