How Can Space Travel Affect Our Heart Health?

Heart Matters

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH
Guest: James MacNamara, MD
How does the long-term absence of gravity impact our hearts? Is there anything we can do to protect our cardiovascular health in outer space, and what insights can this research teach us about how our heart health here is on earth? Joining Dr. Matthew Sorrentino to answer these and other questions is Dr. James MacNamara, an advanced cardiography fellow and author of a recent research paper published in Circulation studying the cardiac effects of extreme duration space flight.