Mutated gene safeguards against heart attacks

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) People with a specific gene mutation have a 50 percent lower risk of suffering a heart attack. This is what an international team of researchers headed by the cardiologist Professor Heribert Schunkert, medical director of the German Heart Center at the Technical University of Munich, discovered in a broad comparative study. If this gene were switched off with medications it could reduce the risk of coronary disease significantly.