Genetic testing is moving from predicting heart attacks years down the line to flagging dangerous heart rhythms before they ever appear on an electrocardiogram. Instead of waiting for symptoms, ...

A retrospective study highlighted the challenges of genetic testing interpretation for less-represented groups in public databases of genetic variation. The study covered French-Canadians at a large, ...

Impella, which J&J touts as the world’s smallest heart pump, has a range of devices used for various heart conditions. Lexeo ...

When heart disease runs in your family, your cholesterol goals shift significantly. This genetic connection transforms you from an average-risk individual to someone requiring more vigilant monitoring ...

Novel study used whole genome sequencing to combine monogenetic and polygenetic testing, which are often siloed in research and practice More physicians should order genetic testing but much of the ...

In Pennsylvania and nationwide, heart disease is the leading cause of death. While certain lifestyle factors, like smoking and high cholesterol, can increase a person’s risk for heart disease, ...

The coverage of variants yielded by testing technologies is indicated. Structural variants may entail duplications, deletions, and unbalanced insertions, while positional changes may involve balanced ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study tracking a large group of women for a decade casts doubt on the value of testing for a certain genetic trait linked to heart disease to predict one's chances of illness, ...

About one in five patients with cancer who undergo genetic testing are incidentally found to have mutations in their blood ...

Among cardiologists, it’s known that transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, a type of heart disease, is caused by the misfolding of a protein called transthyretin, which builds up in the walls of the ...

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Today, the Nature Health journal has published Monash University’s DNA Screen study results. The study piloted the idea of ...