For heart related issues (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, arterial calcification, etc), please consider the following,
- Cardiac Health Panel - assess the presence and risk of cardiovascular disease and related diseases including hyperlipoproteinemia, atherosclerosis. To learn more please visit https://www.vibrant-wellness.com/test/CardiacHealthPanel
- CardiaX - assess genetic predispositions associated with various medical conditions that are linked to heart disease and stroke. To learn more, please visit https://www.vibrant-wellness.com/test/CardiaX
- Methylation panel - Per the following Nature (2022) article,
"Epigenetics mainly regulates cardiovascular disease-related genes function and expression level through DNA methylation, histone modification, and noncoding RNA regulation, thus affecting cardiovascular disease progression. Epigenetic markers are important molecular markers of cardiovascular disease because they occur early in the disease and involve key cardiovascular pathologically related pathways. Most importantly, it can be used as cardiovascular disease biomarkers for cardiovascular disease diagnosis, treatment response prediction and evaluation"
To learn more about methylation, please see: https://www.vibrant-wellness.com/test/MethylationPanel.
- The Micronutrient test may also be of value since Vitamin K may inhibit progression of vascular calcification by enhancing the activity of MGP through facilitating its γ-carboxylation. In support of this hypothesis, the procalcific effects of warfarin, an antagonist of vitamin K, on arterial calcification have been demonstrated in several clinical studies (Shioi, et al., 2020).
