Reposted by Julian Wanner
Check out our new article in #Circulation on an astonishing genetic variant in the ion channel #SCN5A that enables us to learn about #cardiac-arrhythmia and their treatment with sodium channel blockers.
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Leveraging a Genetic Proxy to Investigate the Effects of Lifelong Cardiac Sodium Channel Blockade | Circulation
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias pose a major public health burden,
but prevention remains difficult. We investigated a genetic variant that we found
to act like a natural...