Genetic testing and family screening help to provide explanations for sudden cardiac death in children and young adults, shows a population-based study. The research, which appears in The New England ...

A test to tell if you carry genes placing you at risk of a heart attack is under development after the discovery of more than 160 potential culprits. But a breakthrough medical discovery by Australian ...

Around 2000 young people under 50 suffer a sudden cardiac arrest each year, but now a breakthrough test can detect if healthy young people have a deadly gene hidden in their DNA. The Coledale mother ...

The tool uses a "polygenic risk score" (PRS) that combines information from hundreds of thousands of common genetic variants ...

New Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) help U.S. clinicians predict 8 heart conditions early, enhancing risk screening and ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute and collaborators have developed and validated a new genetic risk test that can ...

One family understands the pain more than most of the role that genetics plays in sudden cardiac deaths in young, seemingly healthy individuals. In the years to follow, as the human genome was mapped ...

The discovery of a genetic cause for young people's sudden cardiac deaths discovery will bring relief to the families and clinicians who will have information to prevent further deaths. A New Zealand ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have validated a polygenic risk score that estimates inherited risk for eight cardiovascular conditions, offering a more comprehensive prevention tool. The test, ...

Brian Murphy, 44, discovered he had high cholesterol as a teenager by chance. This cheap, one-off blood test could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease in 20 per cent of the population. An ...