Health Blog Posts Powered by BlogBurst Health News Reuters.com: "Researchers studying the causes of heart disease made a breakthrough when a recent study identified a gene variant as a cause for heart disease in women. Researchers from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, the University of Iowa and Roche Molecular Systems held a variant of the gene Leukotriene C4 Synthase (LTC4S) responsible on the basis of a study that began in 1971 and involved 11,377 participants. Various risk factors like weight, cholesterol levels and blood pressure were recorded and analyzed. They found that when those with a variant of gene LTC4S suffer an injury in their blood vessel, there is excessive inflammation, which hampers the repair of the blood vessel. This could lead to heart disease. The researchers are optimistic about their findings making personalized treatments possible."
Personalized medicine is on the way. This is one of the steps. Of course, practical treatment may be more than a generation away.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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