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A heart drug aimed at a risk Black patients carry more often failed. Under 4% of its trial was of African ancestry.
Pelacarsen cut Lp(a) by 78% in 8,323 patients and did not prevent a single extra heart attack or stroke
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Heart disease
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He saw specialists for 15 years. Researchers have now traced his gene to the Black Loyalists.
The same variant is carried by an estimated 3% to 4% of Black Americans. Descendants in Atlantic Canada may have it and not know.