Study find new heart drug has a key role in triglycerides

According to a new report published in the journal Nature Genetics, the researchers had a massive hunt for the genes that could have an effect on heart diseases. They have discovered total of 157 changes in human DNA that could literally affect the cholesterol levels or sugar levels and could lead to heart diseases.
 The team studied each gene that can affect or relate cholesterol level, obesity, type2 diabetes and high blood pressure. The research also states that triglycerides are one other type of the blood lipid that could be responsible for heart diseases.
 The leading author of this research Cristen Willer, Ph.D also an assistant professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at the U-M Medical School explains, “These results give us 62 new clues about lipid biology, and more places to look than we had before. Once we take the time to truly understand these clues, we'll have a better understanding of lipid biology and cardiovascular disease—and potentially new targets for treatment.”