(HealthDay News) -- Genetics may play more of a role in heart attacks than in strokes, a new British study suggests.<\/p>
\"A family history of heart attack appears to be a stronger risk factor for heart attack than a family history of stroke is for stroke,\" said study author Amitava Banerjee, a clinical lecturer in cardiovascular medicine at the University of Birmingham in England.<\/p>
The findings should alter the way doctors predict a patient's risk of heart attack and stroke based on family history, the researchers said. And, \"genes and genome-wide association studies may not be critical to the field of stroke research,\" Banerjee added.<\/p>
Both stroke and heart attack are leading killers of adults in the United States.<\/p>
For their report, published in the August issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, Banerjee's team collected data from the Oxford Vascular Study on 906 people who had heart attacks and 1,015 stroke survivors. Read more...<\/a><\/p> AyurGold for Healthy Blood <\/span><\/a><\/p> Source: (HealthDay News) -- Genetics may play more of a role in heart attacks than in strokes, a new British study suggests.\"A family history of heart attack appears to be a stronger risk factor for heart attack than a family history … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88ba7_2974649792848292983-3752006248209965621?l=anti-aging-for-today.blogspot.com\")
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