MIBHS

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, often attributed to a mix of lifestyle choices, environmental factors, and genetic predispositions. While you can’t change your genetic code, having a family history of heart disease does not mean your fate is sealed.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Traditional risk factors are rare in patients with SCAD, except for hypertension. Patients diagnosed with SCAD have different combinations of risk factors compared with patients who have atherosclerotic changes in their coronary arteries.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background:Clinical and genetic predispositions are significant in predicting atrial fibrillation (AF); however, their role in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) remains unclear. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATMP101-ATMP101, February 1, 2025.

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Risk Factors Atrial Fibrillation Cardiomyopathy Genetic predisposition 40

Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Although mediation analysis demonstrated that the association between PGSMDand CVDs in females was partly mediated by baseline body mass index, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and smoking, these risk factors did not explain the higher risk compared with males.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While CAC is typically associated with traditional risk factors such as age, hypertension, and smoking, paradoxically elevated CAC scores have been observed in male endurance athletes despite their otherwise healthy profiles. Traditional Risk Factors Age was one of the strongest predictors.

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