Raising ‘good’ cholesterol may not have heart benefits, warns study
date:May 21, 2012
attack in the future, said Kathiresan.But we have shown that you cannot assume that raising HDL by any mechanism will help patients. Perhaps other mechanisms exist that can lower risk, but we will need to keep searching for them.


Genetics study


The researchers explained that individuals typically carry two copies of each gene in the genome which copy a child will inherit from each parent is essentially a random decision.


This phenomenon, sometimes called Mendelian randomization, provides
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