/oss/taxonomy/term/2396/all en /oss/article/did-you-know-health/hearts-turning-bone <p>Doctors have long noticed that after a heart attack, a patient’s heart may develop what appear to be bone deposits or patches of calcium and phosphate, but they’ve never really known why. <a href="http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(16)30345-9">A new study</a> believes these bone deposits are a sort of accidental by-product of a heart’s attempts to repair itself after an attack.</p> Sun, 21 May 2017 18:10:01 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 2467 at /oss