Settings

Theme

Promising One and done heart disease genetic therapy

nytimes.com

4 points by anjel 14 days ago · 1 comment

Reader

zzzeek 14 days ago

the identification of populations with a loss-of-function mutation in the PCSK9 gene having extremely low rates of heart disease (and otherwise being perfectly fine with little-to-no functional PCSK9 present) looks to be a game changer. There is already fast growth of so-called PCSK9 inhibitors such as Repatha which I'm now on. These treatments seem to be superior to statins in most ways except price + it's an injection, for the moment.

Keyboard Shortcuts

j
Next item
k
Previous item
o / Enter
Open selected item
?
Show this help
Esc
Close modal / clear selection