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A stress gene has been linked to having a higher risk of dying from a heart attack or heart disease.
Heart patients with the genetic change had a 38% increased risk of heart attack or death, say US researchers.
Personalised medicine may lead to better targeting of psychological or drug treatment to those most at risk, they report in PLOS ONE.
The study adds to evidence stress may directly increase heart disease risk, says the British Heart Foundation.
A team at Duke University School of Medicine studied a single DNA letter change in the human genome, which has been linked to being more vulnerable to the effects of stress.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25432205
Heart patients with the genetic change had a 38% increased risk of heart attack or death, say US researchers.
Personalised medicine may lead to better targeting of psychological or drug treatment to those most at risk, they report in PLOS ONE.
The study adds to evidence stress may directly increase heart disease risk, says the British Heart Foundation.
A team at Duke University School of Medicine studied a single DNA letter change in the human genome, which has been linked to being more vulnerable to the effects of stress.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25432205