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A new study suggests that CTEPH may be a genetic disease
A new study suggests that chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) may be an inherited genetic disease. To investigate this possibility, researchers at Intermountain Healthcare reviewed medical records linked to the Utah Population Database to identify all patients with a CTEPH diagnosis. The team then compared the extent to which CTEPH patients were related, comparing them with matched controls without the condition.
They found that the 66 patients were significantly more closely related than the controls, which is unlikely to occur by chance. Read more about this fascinating research here: “#ATS2018 – CTEPH May Be a Genetic Disease, Study Suggests”
Did you know CTEPH might be hereditary? How do you feel about researchers accessing population databases for this kind of investigation?
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