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Brno scientists investigate hereditary disorder that leads to heart attacks in thirty-somethings

Scientists from Masaryk University Faculty of Medicine are investigating a hereditary disorder that leads to heart attacks at a young age in a pan-European project. The university announced this in a press release. Familial hypercholesterolaemia, as the full name of the disorder goes, causes high blood cholesterol levels and subsequently increases the risk of heart attack many times over, often as early as the age of 30.

"A person can live for years without symptoms before unexpectedly suffering a heart attack. And the older one gets, the harder familial hypercholesterolaemia is to diagnose, as cholesterol levels naturally increase with age, so it can be harder to distinguish whether it is due to a genetic disorder or other factors such as an unhealthy lifestyle. Only genetic testing will provide an accurate diagnosis," said Tomáš Freiberger from the Centre for Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgery in Brno.

We have published other professional articles in the periodical Pohybové ústrojí

We have published 2 new articles in the latest issue of the professional periodical "Pohybové ústrojí", one of which we are the first/main authors, the other is co-authored by MUDr. Veronika Krulišová, PhD.

We published three case reports in Acta medicinae

In the latest issue of the journal Acta medicinae, a team of doctors and colleagues from the GHC Genetics laboratory published the following case reports:

The genetic consultation questionnaire is now online

Dear Clients,

In case you are going to undergo any of the genetic tests with us, the new Genetic Consultation Questionnaire is fully online and filling it out will be very comfortable for you. Once completed and sent to us, the questionnaire will be saved, so you do not have to print it and fill it out as you did before