A researcher in Italy says Alzheimer's disease and heart attacks share a ordinary genetic base. Federico Licastro of the University of Bologna says the gene distribution allows testing to determine the risk of both two diseases even among young patients. Licastro synchronized a study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, that finds the overlapping innate risks of being affected by the two diseases form a genetic predisposition in 30 percent of heart attack wounded and 40 percent of those with Alzheimer's.
"We have now been able to identify a genetic profile of some genes partially common to both diseases," Licastro says in a statement. "This is the leap in excellence that now enables us to conduct a test and assess a profile partly specific to both diseases." Licastro and colleagues examine the DNA of 1,800 people of whom 280 suffer heart attacks, 257 had Alzheimer's and 1,307 were fit controls. Both diseases seem rooted in genes concerned in synthesizing and transport cholesterol and in controlling for inflammation, the researchers say.
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"We have now been able to identify a genetic profile of some genes partially common to both diseases," Licastro says in a statement. "This is the leap in excellence that now enables us to conduct a test and assess a profile partly specific to both diseases." Licastro and colleagues examine the DNA of 1,800 people of whom 280 suffer heart attacks, 257 had Alzheimer's and 1,307 were fit controls. Both diseases seem rooted in genes concerned in synthesizing and transport cholesterol and in controlling for inflammation, the researchers say.
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