Research

The Heart Institute ranks 4th in Canada and 159th in the world across all fields of study.

A Harvard University study illustrates the human cost of our over-developed taste for salt.

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A researcher’s exploration of how PCSK9 controls cholesterol levels and impacts the risk of heart disease.

Finding a gene associated with disease is one thing. Figuring out what it does is something else. After five years, Heart Institute researchers now know how one genetic variant works and suspect that it contributes to heart disease through processes that promote chronic inflammation and cell division.