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Telomere Length Predicts Coronary Heart Disease Risk and Statin Response

  • in Cardiovascular
  • — 19 Jan, 2007
Telomere Length Predicts Coronary Heart Disease Risk and Statin Response
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Nilesh Samani

NILESH SAMANI, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester

REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 369:107
A new genetic test could help predict which individuals will develop coronary heart disease among those with similar conventional risk factors. The length of the terminating structures of chromosomes, telomeres, can be used to predict cardiovascular mortality in middle-aged men, according to a study from Leicester in the UK which analysed blood samples collected for the West of Scotland Primary Prevention Study, (WOSCOPS). Nilesh Samani gave Helen Morant the details.

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