How Genetic Risk Assessment Can Help Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease

Overall heart disease risk depends on a number of different factors; some environmental, some genetic. Although your genetic make-up cannot be changed, being aware of your genetic risk can be a powerful, motivating tool for lowering your chances of heart disease.

For those who test positive for IL-1 Risk Patterns, it is important to:

• Manage conventional risk factors (eg, adopting a healthy diet, controlling weight, not smoking, being physically active, and maintaining cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels within normal limits).^11-13
• Understand that some biomarkers, for example oxidized LDL cholesterol, may be important predictors of heart disease risk for you, but not for people who test negative for the IL-1 Risk Patterns.^{14, 15} [For more information, click here]
• Adapt your diet to include foods that may lower an overactive inflammatory response^16-18
• Certain foods, such as apples and vegetables, are linked to a lowering of CRP levels.^{16, 17} [for more information click here]
• A botanical product (composed of rose hips, a blueberry and blackberry mixture and a grapevine extract) taken for 12 weeks lowered CRP levels further in people who tested positive for one of the IL-1 Risk Patterns compared with those who tested negative.¹⁸ [For more information, click here]
  

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