Scientists find a likely genetic driver of smoking-related heart disease

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Cigarette smoking accounts for about one fifth of cases of coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but precisely how smoking leads to CHD has long been unclear. Now, a team co-led by researchers Penn and Columbia has uncovered a molecule that may at least partly explain the smoking-CHD connection.
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