How your genes register heart attacks

How your genes register heart attacks
The memory of a heart attack gets stored in genes through epigenetic changes , says study.

Several of these changes are in genes that are linked to cardiovascular disease. However, it was not possible to determine whether these differences had contributed to the development of the disease, or if they live on as a memory of gene activation associated with the heart attack, the researchers said. ‘We hope that our new results should contribute to increasing the knowledge of the importance of epigenetic in the clinical picture of a heart attack, which in the long run could lead to better drugs and treatments’, Johansson added. You should know about these signs of heart attack.

For the study, the team took blood samples from the northern Sweden population health study. Individuals with a history of a CVD were identified in the cohort. It included individuals with hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, thrombosis and cardiac arrhythmia.  The results were published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

Source: IANS

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