Quintet Of Proteins Forms New, Early-warning Blood Test Before Heart Attack Strikes
Sunday, November 9, 2008 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
Biochemists have identified a mixed bag of five key proteins out of thousands secreted into blood draining from the heart's blood vessels that may together or in certain quantities form the basis of a far more accurate early warning test than currently in use of impending heart attack in people with severely reduced blood flow, or ischemia.