Monday 19 January 2015

8% Indians Carry Mutated Gene Associated With Heart Failure: Study

Around 8% of Indians and other South Asians carry gene mutation that causes heart failure and potentially fatal heart attacks, a new study of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine has found. The study shows how this gene mutation impairs the heart's ability to pump blood and the findings could point the way to eventual treatments and prevention strategies for an estimated 55 million people of South Asian descent worldwide, who carry the ...

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