Mutated gene safeguards against heart attacks

Monday, March 7, 2016 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

People with a specific gene mutation have a 50 percent lower risk of suffering a heart attack. This is what an international team of researchers discovered in a broad comparative study. If this gene were switched off with medications it could reduce the risk of coronary disease significantly.

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