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A Gene Test to Save Your Life- It Prevents Heart Disease
When it comes to heart disease, this is what experts seem to be working on. Yes, the pundits of the medical world have developed a genetic test which can help prevent heart disease even before you know its there!
Three Australian experts had called for more support to screen families with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), which involves a defective gene that prevents liver cells from taking up cholesterol from the blood.
The call follows reports that UK authorities may soon recommend at-risk children under the age of 10 years be screened for the FH gene.
"[The UK proposals] represent an approach we would like to see in Australia," ABC online quoted Dr David Sullivan, president of the Australian Atherosclerosis Society, who spoke at a forum organized by the Australian Science Media Centre in Adelaide.
Sullivan says FH affects up to 1 in 500 Australians but only 7percent of people with the condition are adequately treated.
FH increases the chance of early heart attack and stroke and is probably causing about 10 percent of heart attacks in people under age 60, he says.
Sullivan says half of the men with the usual form of FH develop coronary heart disease before they are 50.
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