The research found a link between increased levels of cardiac troponin and more rapid cognitive decline in later years.

Incorporating high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) testing into the traditional HEART pathway may improve detection of acute MI in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest ...

Nearly 1 in 5 US adults with type 2 diabetes but without symptoms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have a clinically meaningful elevation of a marker of cardiac damage — namely, high sensitivity ...

A long-term study suggests that subtle changes in a common blood marker may signal dementia risk as early as 25 years before ...

Recent data from US emergency departments (EDs) suggest that use of cardiac biomarker testing to identify ACS needs to be better refined, particularly the seemingly default practice of testing even ...

In the current study, the investigators retrospectively extracted data from 295 hospitalized participants in an earlier randomized placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive dexamethasone treatment for ...

CHICAGO—Elevated troponin levels are associated with renal insufficiency in patients with heart failure, a new study found. Heart failure patients with a glome-rular filtration rate (GFR) less than 30 ...

Strokes are life-changing events that can cause a myriad of issues even after it is over. Plenty of tests, such as the national institute of health stroke scale (NIHSS), can gauge the severity of a ...

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