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Circulation: Heart Failure Journal Report..Dietary information from 3 large, well-known heart disease studies suggests drinking one or more cups of caffeinated coffee may reduce heart failure risk, according to research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.

Coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke are among the top causes of death from heart disease in the U.S. “While smoking, age and high blood pressure are among the most well-known heart disease risk factors, unidentified risk factors for heart disease remain,” according to David P. Kao, M.D...

Euan Ashley and his colleagues discovered an association between heart failure and a pathway linked to narcolepsy. Mark Tuschman

The gene identified by Stanford researchers codes for a protein first identified when a mutated form was shown to cause narcolepsy.
Caring for patients with heart failure costs the US $40 billion a year. Few new treatments have been developed, and those that exist produce varied responses among patients. One major challenge to the development of new treatments has been the lack of genes that can be confidently associated with heart failure. Prof. Euan Ashley is hopeful that the new finding will open doors to evaluating possible treatments.

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Perez wondered if there were genetic reasons for discrepancies in treatment outcom...