Genes, lifestyle, and risk for heart attack

0fffbbadf79e38765af2409f9fd74dbf Harvard Medical School {"start": "2019-05-22T19:00:00", "end": "2019-05-22T20:00:00"}

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Kathiresan, Sekar, M.D. Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Director, Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute Professor of Medicine

Dr. Kathiresan leverages human genetics to understand the root causes of heart attack and to improve preventive cardiac care. Among his scientific contributions, Dr. Kathiresan has helped highlight new biological mechanisms underlying heart attack, discovered mutations that protect against heart attack risk, and developed a genetic test for personalized heart attack prevention.

https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=31985 http://www.kathiresanlab.org/