Heart attacks kill more than 100,000 people annually in the UK
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 10:14
in Health & Medicine
Heart attacks kill more than 100,000 people annually in the UK and cost the NHS more than GBP3billion every year. Scientists know that heredity plays an important role in causing heart attacks. However the exact genetic mechanisms that transmit the risk of heart attacks from generation to generation still elude them...
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