Sunday, May 1, 2011

The future has arrived Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention

I think this is not supported by any science yet.

The future has arrived. Thats good news for Amy Doneen, a nurse practitioner at the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Clinic in Spokane, Washington. We now have one more tool in the tool belt, says Doneen, whose work at the clinic is geared towards, as the name suggests, preventing patients from suffering from heart attacks, stroke and diabetes. The tool Doneen has added to her tool belt is deCODEme, a genetic screening test conducted by deCODE genetics. The deCODEme test, which requires patients to simply swab saliva from the inside of their cheek and then send it off to deCODE for DNA analysis, scans an individuals genome for genetic markers linked to 30 different diseases, such as heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

http://www.goheartdisease.info/archives/reversing-heart-disease-stroke-naturally-trailer.html

Or you could read the negative view of DNA testing here:

deCODEme and its questionable disease-risk predictions
http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/26/decodeme-and-its-questionable-disease-risk-predictions/

A few days ago, I noted that deCODEme, the personal-genomics spinoff of Iceland’s deCODE Genetics, looks to be offering disease-risk predictions based on surprisingly thin evidence. I looked into it a little more deeply, and while I’m not a geneticist or even a close approximation thereof, I’m still a little taken aback by how little deCODEme currently seems to be flying on where many of these conditions are concerned
More in the URL.

Or you could look at the deCODEme site itself:
http://www.decodeme.com/

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