February 6, 2014
Your Genotype and Your Heart Health
By Center for Individualized Medicine
Each year in the United States, 600,000 to 800,000 heart stents are placed to restore blood flow through coronary arteries. Patients are then given medication to keep blood clots from forming near the surgical site. Such clots can be deadly, causing heart attack and stroke. But, which antiplatelet medication is best? The answer may lie in your genes. “The […]
Tags: antiplatelet, antiplatelet medication, clopidogrel, dna test, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, genome science, genomic medicine, genomics, heart, heart attack, Heart Health
February 3, 2014
National Wear Red Day This Friday
By Center for Individualized Medicine
At the Center for Individualized Medicine, we are working to combat the No. 1 killer of men and women in the United States at the genomics level: Heart disease. We wanted to start this week off by sharing this informative image below on the facts on heart disease that affect women, and show our support […]
Tags: DNA Sequencing, genome, Genome Sequencing, genomics, Heart Disease, Heart Health, individualized medicine, personalized care, personalized medicine, Wear Red