More people in the UK at risk of hereditary heart disease than previously thought

More people in the UK are at risk of a hereditary form of cardiac amyloidosis, a potentially fatal heart condition, than previously thought, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL (University College London) and Queen Mary University of London. The study, published in JAMA Cardiology, used data from the UK Biobank to analyze the genes of 469,789 people in the UK and found that one in 1,000 possessed genetic variants with a likely link to cardiac transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis. Among study participants with African ancestry, incidence was much higher, with one in 23 (4.3%) having genes thought Read More