Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
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Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
Understanding CHIP and Heart Disease
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Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute
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In this episode, Samir Kapadia, MD, and Ohad Oren, MD, explain clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, and how age-related blood cell mutations can raise the risk of heart disease. They discuss what CHIP is, who it affects, how it is discovered, and why it matters for understanding cardiovascular risk beyond traditional factors.
Learn more about CHIP. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/clonal-hematopoiesis-of-indeterminate-potential-chip
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