One of the core elements of the NHLBI mission is to prevent and treat heart, lung, and blood diseases through public education. Since the mid-1970s, the NHLBI's health education portfolio has included collaborative initiatives with researchers and practitioners to develop clinical practice guidelines focused on the management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
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The complicated nature of congenital heart disease historically has meant that we know little about the fundamental causes. Now, thanks to the team of scientists in the NHLBI-funded Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium, researchers are beginning to gain new knowledge about potential causes of this condition. Dr. Richard Lifton from Yale University led a study recently published in Nature that reported on the findings from the first large-scale sequencing analysis of congenital heart disease.
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