Quintet of proteins forms new, early-warning blood test before heart attack strikes
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
A team of Johns Hopkins biochemists has 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 ischaemia...