20: Is The Fault in our Genes?

05/15/22 • 9 min

Drawing a map of genes might help us predict who will get sick and when we will get sick of heart disease or cancer. And we have seen Angelina Jolie, the famous actress, going for a preventive mastectomy because she had a faulty gene for breast cancer. But Is it the inevitable destiny, or can we change it? Do genes decide who will have heart disease? Who is to be blamed for heart disease? The genes we inherit, or the environment where we grow and live?Can your good genes protect you from your unhealthy lifestyle? Can a good lifestyle buffer our faulty genes?Watch it 🎦 on YouTube Read 📖it on LinkedIn ReferencesCirculation. 2022;145:808–818. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.053730https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.053730

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With all its health benefits, cheap, and with few side effects, Aspirin is in every house. Aspirin reduces mortality in acute myocardial infarction. It is intuitive to use it for prevention, not only for treatment. Some studies supported that practice.But in the 21st century, we realize that aspirin is a gastric irritant and can cause bleeding. We got better pain killers and more potent platelet inhibitors, and we started questioning aspirin's protective effect compared to other drugs. So what’s the truth about Aspirin? Should people above 40 with no heart or vascular disease take Aspirin to prevent heart attacks and strokes or not? LinkedIn articleYouTube VideoAspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.” JAMA 327, no. 16 (April 26, 2022): 1577–84. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.4983https://www.cvriskcalculator.comhttps://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics

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