March 23, 2012

Blood Test May Help Predict Heart Attacks

Alice Park, Time


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Doctors can easily tell when someone is having a heart attack, but one thing they can’t do is predict an attack before it happens. Even patients who come in for stress tests and get a clean bill of health often end up back in the hospital with a heart attack just days later.

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TAGGED: medical diagnostics, heart attack, endothelial cells, blood test

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