In the largest-ever collaborative study of its kind, a team of cardiovascular genetics researchers from around the world have identified 13 new genetic variants associated with coronary artery disease (CAD).
The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have named the RAFT trial among the top 10 research advances in heart disease in 2010.
Thirty-one years ago, it was not known that the heart produces hormones. That changed in 1981 when Adolfo de Bold, PhD, discovered that muscle cells in the atria of the heart secrete atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), an essential hormone that regulates fluid volume, blood pressure and sodium.
UOHI researchers have identified a stretch of DNA that increases risk of heart disease by up to 40 per cent regardless of other established risk factors