Heart Attacks Not Linked to Genetic DNA

It was always believed that heart attacks could be due to agenetic history of your family, studies now show that this is not a true fact. Researchers at the Intermountain medical center in salt city are discovering that heart attacks are not linked to family history.

Benjamin D Horne and his team studied many patients with different kinds of coronary diseases who did not suffer heart attacks.These patients were picked and identified by the research team by linking 700,000 patientsin a clinical data warehosue where family pedigrees are located. The research team had discovered that yes, coronary heart disease can be family gene associated but heart attacks are not.  Since cornary heart disease and heart attacks are so closely realted to eachother many people automatically believed that this trait would be inherited as well. Since this study began in 2008 it has shown that this is not true. The study was able to find out that only one genetic mutation was associated with heart attacks. This shows that heart attacks are rarely from inheritance of family members.

I think that this could be very helpful for a lot of people because many people believe that if someone in their family has a heart attack they are also likely to have one or be at risk for one. This study is very interesting and could be useful to many families who had a heart attack happen in the family.

Article Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/new-study-finds-heart-attacks-do-not-have-as-strong-of-a-genetic-link-as-previously-suspected

Supporting Link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141020212300.htm