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4cr Indians at heart failure risk [1]

By Abhishek Shukla
New Delhi

Jan. 18: Every 25th Indian carries a mutant gene which makes the person vulnerable to an "almost guaranteed" risk of sudden cardiac arrest, results of a study published on Sunday suggest.

The mutated gene is carried by six crore people around the globe of which more than four crores are Indians, researchers said.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
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Health [3], Heart Diseases [4], Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR) [5], India [6]
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