{"id":811804,"date":"2026-10-23T22:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:24:17","slug":"heart-health-isnt-only-about-diet-and-exercise-7-things-you-may-have-inherited-from-your-parents-that-can-influence-cholesterol-heart-rhythm-and-your-risk-of-developing-heart-problems-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811804\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart health isn&#8217;t only about diet and exercise? 7 things you may have inherited from your parents that can influence cholesterol, heart rhythm and your risk of developing heart problems early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heart disease is linked to everyday habits. A diet high in saturated fat, smoking, inactivity and uncontrolled blood pressure can all raise cardiovascular risk. But sometimes, the story begins much earlier, with genes passed down through generations.<\/p>\n<p>A parent\u2019s high cholesterol, an unusually thick heart muscle or an unexplained sudden death in the family may offer important clues about inherited heart risks. These clues do not mean the same fate awaits every family member. They do, however, deserve attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenetics can influence various factors of heart health, which is why understanding inherited risk should go hand in hand with making healthy lifestyle choices,\u201d said Dr Ramesh Menon, Director of Personal Genomics and Genomic Medicine, MedGenome Labs Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Here are seven things that may be inherited and what they mean for heart health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heart disease is linked to everyday habits. A diet high in saturated fat, smoking, inactivity and uncontrolled blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17693,59,102,54051,6613,266239,266238,266237,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-diet-and-exercise","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-healthy-heart","tag-heart-health","tag-heart-health-inherited-from-family","tag-heart-problems","tag-medgenome-labs-ltd","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}