Researchers are very close to know why few people are at greater risk of having the heart problems than other peoples. In a recent study, the scientists have disclosed that 6 genetic variants are found to be associated with higher risk of developing coronary artery disease.

These findings were conducted by — the scientists from the University of Leicester and UK’s Leeds University and also at the Universities of Lubeck and Regensburg in Germany. When the genes of approximately 3,000 persons who have the disease of coronary artery were compared with the genes of about 5,000 healthy persons, the scientists found 6 gene variations that would raise a person’s risk of getting the heart problems.

James Januzzi, a cardiologist at Harvard University mentioned that — these discoveries would definitely make changes in the manner by which the heart patient’s are treated in the upcoming future to a large extent. If doctors identify the patient’s genetic risk factors than it will help in taking preventive measures in the treatment, or even discover some other method of treatment which will attack to those particular genetic variations of the patient.

James Januzzi said in a prepared statement:

A good percentage of cases we see have no clear reason, or they have a reason but its family history. This study sharpens the focus on this, until now, nebulous concept of family history; the genetic foundations of these syndromes, and really gives us hope that someday we’ll be able to know well in advance who’s at risk for a cardiac event.

The scientists told that alternations on the chromosome number — 1, 2, 6, 10 and 15 are linked with the disease of coronary artery and the heart attack. The authors of this recent study told that these variations are common in the human beings. Most of these variations are likely to be present in 25% to 75% of the white peoples of the European countries. Every one of you have the chances of inheriting these variations from either your mother or your father or even from both of them, and carrying one of the copy raises the risk of developing the heart problems by 20%. And by carrying 2 copies the risk factor is raised by 40%.

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Despite the common notion that America remains plagued by a divorce epidemic, the national per capita divorce rate has declined steadily since its peak in 1981 and is now at its lowest level since 1970.

Yet the natives are not making better decision regarding the choice of their life. This also implies to those, who study marriage and work to make it more successful can’t decide whether the trend is grounds for celebration or cynicism.

What’s fueling the decline?

Some scholars have postulated that since, most of the couples are having living in relationship and so this could lead to lower level of divorce rates.

And on the other hand, the marriage rate has dropped by nearly 30 percent in past 25 years; and Americans are waiting about five years longer to marry than they did in 1970.

‘The divorce divide’

While other experts have documented what they call ‘the divorce divide,’ contending that divorce rates are indeed falling substantively among college-educated couples but not among less-affluent, less-educated couples.

Andrew Cherlin, a professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University has suggested that families experience less tension where, both the partners are earning since, it is related to the increased standard of living.

Other experts too are heartened by what they view as the increased determination of many couples to make marriage work. Among them is Bill Chausee of Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, which offers marriage-strengthening programs in a state where divorces dropped more than 25 percent between 2000 and 2005.

 Efforts to combat divorce

Some states have made concerted efforts to combat divorce with publicly funded marriage education campaigns, although their effectiveness remains in question.

In Oklahoma, 100,000 people have attended workshops since a marriage initiative began in 2001, but the latest divorce figures showed no drop and the campaign’s backers no long stress their original goal of cutting divorce by one-third by 2010.

The Bush administration believes such programs have merit — its Healthy Marriage initiative has disbursed more than $200 million nationwide in the past five years.

Now does that mean, wealthier couples have better odds of success in marriage?

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