Butsimplyhaving another personaroundmay not make a difference when it comes to surviving a serious heart attack, said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologistat ScrippsHealth in San Diego.
Scripps Healthcardiologist Eric Topol says testing for single genetic variants may be misleading, as there are likely to be numerous genes that affect the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
The map "took the 3 billion DNA letters and divided them into 300, 000 ZIP codes so you could locate things, " says cardiologist Eric Topol of Scripps Health.
The study's good design "provides a basis to infer cause and effect" between poverty and bad health, said Dr. Robert Califf, a noted Duke University cardiologist who is leading a massive study on neighborhoods and health outcomes.