Health
Heart disease is caused by everything these days. Sometimes, it can seem easier to make a list of things that wouldn’t cause a heart condition. However, the heart disease statistics being released every day are often related to a few...
What is the MTHFR Gene and How Can It Affect You?
What is the MTHFR gene? MTHFR is a gene that provides instructions to produce the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) enzyme. The enzyme is important for the production of DNA, construction of amino acids, gene expression regulation and folate synthesis. As is...
Silent Heart Attacks Heart attacks (also known as Myocardial Infarctions, MI) are usually presented as dramatic events. On television we see scenes of people falling to the floor holding their chest in agonising pain whilst suffering from a heart...
Types of Inherited Heart Condition
Inherited heart conditions are the result of faulty genes that are inherited from parents and can be passed down for generations. They arise from instructions in our DNA to affect cellular processes in the body. From such small changes, the...
How Heart Conditions Can Be Inherited
Inherited Heart Conditions Inherited heart conditions are present too often. They may go undetected and lead to disaster when untreated. They can lead to heart attacks, cardiac arrest and a glut of other effects. But what are they and...
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the industrialised world. It saturates the media and touches every family. All of this trouble from just a single fist sized organ. Most heart disease is caused by just...
Basic Stats The heart is an incredible muscle that functions all day every day pumping blood around our body. It beats around 100,000 times per day, can pump over 2000 gallons of blood every day, and yet it is...
Use of Biomarkers Personalising drug therapy works by identifying certain genetic traits, or ‘biomarkers’, which determine how an individual will respond to specific drugs. In some cases, the presence of a particular biomarker represents a poor response to a drug...