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Genetic testing for cardiovascular diseases

Genetic testing for cardiovascular diseases is a proactive approach that can help us identify risks of inherited cardiovascular diseases and plan for effective prevention and monitoring disease development. This program analyzes 83 gene variations proved to be associated with the following heart diseases:

aortic dissection and aneurysm

severe cardiac arrhythmias

cardiomyopathy causing heart failure

thromboembolism

severe hyperlipidemia

Who should get tested?

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Healthy people with no family history of heart diseases but seeking to find the risks of developing inherited heart diseases

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Those with a family history or their own history of the following:

• acute heart attack • relatives’ sudden death during exercise • parents developing heart diseases before age 45 • relatives dying of a heart disease with no known cause • aortic aneurysm or dissection

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