EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis, 17 June 2022: Recommendations on how to use gene testing to prevent sudden cardiac death in athletes and enable safe exercise are published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “Genetic testing for potentially lethal variants is more accessible than ever...
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When should screening start for men with a family history of prostate cancer?
by Public Library of Science Credit: CC0 Public Domain A nationwide study in Sweden estimates the elevated risk of advanced or fatal prostate cancer among relatives of men with the disease, providing new data that could help refine guidelines for the age at which screening should begin. Mahdi Fallah and Elham Kharazmi of the German Cancer...
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Genetic testing could be appropriate for all motor neuron disease patients, regardless of family history
by University of Sheffield Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) suggests that routine genetic testing may be appropriate for all MND patients and could impact disease subclassification and clinical care. The new study, published today (15 February 2021) in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP), performed targeted genetic sequencing of...