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11/14/10

Understanding Your Genetic Risk for Heart Disease

Dr. Daniel Rader of Penn Medicine encourages individuals with a family history of heart disease to be screened at a younger age so they can prevent heart disease before it develops. It could be life saving.

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Daniel Rader, MD Daniel Rader, MD
Director, Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Lipid Clinic, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Dr. Rader is the Cooper-McClure Professor of Medicine and is Professor of Pathology and Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He is Director of the newly created Clinical and Translational Research Center and Associate Director of Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.  He is also the Director of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Lipid Clinic and the... more >

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