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Gene sleuths find biomarkers for silent killer atherosclerosis
In atherosclerosis, cholesterol thickens or hardens the walls of the arteries. But there are no symptoms until it's too late, and the patient has a heart attack or stroke. However, a team of Read more...
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Gene sleuths find biomarkers for silent killer atherosclerosis
In atherosclerosis, cholesterol thickens or hardens the walls of the arteries. But there are no symptoms until it's too late, and the patient has a heart attack or stroke. However, a team of Read more...
Biomarker could quickly diagnose heart attack
One of the most common reasons patients go to a hospital emergency department is for chest pain, and as with many medical emergencies, fast evaluation of chest pain leading to the most appropriate Read more...
BNP may serve as prognostic biomarker in valve disease
Degenerative mitral valve disease is a common form of heart disease and affects up to 2% of the population, causing symptoms such as breathlessness. Physicians use echocardiography to diagnose and Read more...
Researchers see microRNAs as prognostic markers for heart failure
Systolic heart failure--when the heart becomes weakened and enlarged--reduces the effective pumping of blood around the body. Symptoms include breathlessness, tiredness, cough, fluid buildup, weight Read more...
A yogurt a day keeps heart disease biomarkers at bay
Diabetes and heart disease often go hand-in-hand. Artery damage and high blood pressure are more common and often more severe in people with diabetes. But according to a recent study, making a change Read more...
$5M collaboration for CV biomarkers
An academia-industry collaboration, led by Arizona State University (ASU), is looking for protein biomarkers that could predict cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes. There are around Read more...
Heart treatment guided by biomarker cuts complications
Regularly testing for a biomarker that indicates cardiac distress could significantly reduce hospitalizations for heart failure symptoms. The study findings, conducted by Massachusetts General Read more...
Computers spot new markers linked to cardio death
Computers have proved people wrong again. What were pushed aside as "noises" in ECG data have now been identified--thanks to researchers' use of data-mining and machine learning methods--as Read more...
Vermillion posts positive study on peripheral artery disease
Austin, TX-based molecular diagnostics company Vermillion released results from a study of its Vasclir blood test, which is designed to detect signs of peripheral artery disease (PAD). The test Read more...
Researchers find effective biomarker panel for heart failure outcomes
Researchers have homed in on a set of 7 biomarkers that can predict mortality rates in chronic heart failure patients more accurately than currently used methods, such as the Seattle Heart Failure Read more...
