Excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases, according to the first study to investigate this using a method called Mendelian randomisation. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal, shows that as body mass index (BMI) and fat mass increase, so does the risk of aortic ...

Pharmacogenomics deals with heredity and the effect of drugs. It is a branch of science devoted to efforts of explaining variability of one another drug response, and to search for the genetic basis of such variations or differences. Pharmacogenomics a Promising tool of Personalized Medicine:The concept of individualized Drug therapy has been a central focus ...