Atherosclerosis

Gene Influences Heart Disease and Stroke Risk Factors

Published in Blood Weekly, February 15th, 1999

Researchers may have pieced together part of the puzzle about why some individuals with many risk factors for atherosclerosis never develop heart disease and stroke while others with few risk factors do.

According to the study's lead author, Sharon L.R. Kardia, MD, and colleagues at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the gene responsible for regulating levels of certain fats in the bloodstream also appears to determine how much influence cholesterol and other risk factors have on atherosclerosis, the disease process that leads to heart attacks and strokes. Their findings were reported in the February 1999, issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology,...

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