{"id":1258,"date":"2013-12-31T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.protrainings.eu\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2013-12-31T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:09:25","slug":"about-one-in-10-people-have-a-genetic-change-linked-to-being-more-sensitive-to-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protrainings.uk\/blog\/about-one-in-10-people-have-a-genetic-change-linked-to-being-more-sensitive-to-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"About one in 10 people have a genetic change linked to being more sensitive to stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">A stress gene has been linked to having a higher risk of dying from a heart attack or heart disease. \u00a0Heart patients with the genetic change had a 38% increased risk of heart attack or death, say US researchers. \u00a0Personalised medicine may lead to better targeting of psychological or drug treatment to those most at risk, they report in\u00a0PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n<p>The study adds to evidence stress may directly increase heart disease risk, says the\u00a0British Heart Foundation. \u00a0A team at Duke University School of Medicine studied a single DNA letter change in the human genome, which has been linked to being more vulnerable to the effects of stress.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They found heart patients with the genetic change had a 38% increased risk of heart attack or death from heart disease after seven years of follow up compared with those without, even after taking into account factors like age, obesity and smoking. \u00a0This suggests that stress management techniques and drug therapies could reduce deaths and disability from heart attacks, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-25432205\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-25432205\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stress gene has been linked to having a higher risk of dying from a heart attack or heart disease. \u00a0Heart patients with the genetic change had a 38% increased risk of heart attack or death, say US researchers. \u00a0Personalised medicine may lead to better targeting of psychological or drug treatment to those most at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13,14,9],"tags":[216,324,450,451,217,452,453],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-50-plus-first-aid","category-first-aid","category-first-aid-at-work","category-online-learning","category-protrainings-eu","tag-attack","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-change","tag-genetic","tag-heart","tag-sensitive","tag-stress"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About one in 10 people have a genetic change linked to being more sensitive to stress - Online Health &amp; 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