DNA mutation causes heart disease in whites

Al Reuters via Yahoo ^ | May 3, 2007 | Maggie Fox

[Triggerhippie]

I demand reparations!!!

[RandallFlagg]

But, but, but, but, but, but, but...I was told it’s the CIGARETTES!!!

Ladies?

[InvisibleChurch]

Victimhood rocks!

[lonevoice]

ping!

"DeCODE plans to bundle this discovery with other genetic variants it has linked to risk of heart attack into a DNA-based test for gauging inherited risk of (heart attack)," the company said in a statement.

[P-Marlowe]

And they could lead to a test to predict the risk of heart disease, the biggest cause of death across the globe.

They already have that test:

[Palladin]

Another reason to stop taking statins, if you are not in the high-risk group.

[Mr. Lucky]

Wow. Maybe we can all die healthy.

[-YYZ-]

That’s great - a DNA test for a disease that we don’t really have any good preventatives or treatments for (stents, angioplasty, bypass surgery, etc, being only bandaids for the real problem). I don’t doubt it will be used to charge those with the gene more for life insurance and to deny medical insurance coverage for “pre-existing conditons”, however.

[Lizavetta]

DNA mutations cause heart disease in whites

Women, gays and minorities hardest hit.

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Oh, and Bush's fault.

[Lee'sGhost]

That’s about the stupidest post I’ve ever seen. This does NOTHING to ELIMINATE smoking as a major cause.

[Malsua]

Another reason to stop taking statins, if you are not in the high-risk group.

Thank you.

Statins are BAD. (opinion here)High cholesterol levels are a SYMPTOM, not a cause of heart disease. I worked in a medical office for years, the GP was almost like another father to me. The people he had on Statins more often than not felt like crap all the time and over the years, died or had heart events just as often as the folks NOT on statins. The folks taking Policosonal and CoQ10 had lower "numbers" and didn't feel like crap.

[Jean S]

While diabetes raises the risk of heart disease, the heart disease researchers made sure that the patients they scanned did not have diabetes.

Doesn't that skew the results big time?

[Palladin]

I wish the word would get out to all the middle-aged and older people taking these nasty drugs, which endanger their livers and don’t do much for their hearts.

[Malsua]

I chime in on every thread I see that concerns Cholestorol. The issue I have is that I can’t point to studies that show how a statin wrecks the liver.

I’m not saying that Statins are all bad. They might only be somewhat bad. heh.

I do know for a fact that people who have “good number” cholesterol can die just as people who have a “bad number”. Granted, bad number folks have more heart events, but again, it goes back to being an indicator, not a cause. Something in our system makes more Cholesterol and something else makes it more sticky. When the two combine in our hearts, we either get it scraped out or we die. Trashing our livers to lower the level of output and make us feel like crap seems to be a very bad idea.

[BobS]

My dad died from complications of diabetes and heart disease 18 years ago. He loved sweet things and large helpings of fatty foods. That's when my breakfast became Black English tea with some lemon and a handful of grapes. And no sucrose. Maybe a pastry once in a while.

I saw the inside of my heart, arteries, veins with ultrasound. There was no placque at all. Everything was blushing pink a few years ago. And I love cheese like a rat and my cholesterol is very low. I went to the hospital for chest pain - I did something with my left arm that stretched the tendons above where my heart is. It really hurts the day after with muscular-skeletal stuff. I will probably bang up something again. I am only gentle with women. Everything else does what I want it to do:)

[Triggerhippie]

That isn’t a very good test either. You should see the number of “fit and healthy” folks who are in need of double and triple bypasses. Fat, skinny, smoker, non-smoker, exercise fiend, couch-potato... I’m not sure if there is any such thing as “risk”.

You draw the losing card, you’re done...

[P-Marlowe]

You draw the losing card, you’re done...

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27 KJV)

The day of your death is already in the appointment book.

[Pride in the USA]

It may go a long way in explaining why some victims die so young when there are no obvious reasons for them to succumb to heart disease before they see 50. The real question here is what can anyone really do about it if they test positive for the mutation?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"and these genes are close to a stretch of DNA linked to diabetes."

But isn't diabetes (at least type 2) more prevalent in non-European-descendants (who could have some European blood, but only a small amount)?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

So, does eating lots of sugar (sucrose, carbohydrates, fructose, lactose) promote diabetes? Have basically stopped eating meat (see tagline), but instead of replacing meat with vegetables, have largely increased the amount of carbohydrates and dairy (lactose) eaten--and by a LOT. And, even before, consume a huge amount of sweet foods. However, personally don't eat all that much in total, and not obese. Also, the amount of fatty foods eaten (especially after not eating meat) should be within the "normal" range. So is there a considerable risk of diabetes?