“Myocardial infarction can be predicted 6 months in advance through a blood test.”
2024.02.19 12:44 Write a comment
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Seong-gan = Research results have shown that myocardial infarction can be predicted 6 months in advance through a blood test.
Health Day News reported that the research team of Professor Johan Sundström, a cardiologist at the medical faculty of Uppsala University in Sweden, analyzed data from research conducted on a total of 169,053 people with no history of cardiovascular disease in six countries Europeans and discovered this fact. News) reported on the 17th.
The research team compared blood test data from 420 people who had their first myocardial infarction within 6 months ago and 1,598 healthy people from the same group.
The research team analyzed 817 proteins and 1,025 metabolites in the blood. As a result, it was revealed that a total of 91 molecules, including 48 proteins and 43 metabolites, were related to the occurrence of first myocardial infarction.
Among these, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a protein secreted by the heart, showed the most consistent association with impending myocardial infarction.
It was found that the combination of these 91 molecules with age, sex and systolic blood pressure could predict the imminence of the first myocardial infarction.
Based on this, the research team developed a simple online tool (miscore.org) that indicates the risk of myocardial infarction within 6 months.
The research team expected that if people learned that the risk of myocardial infarction is imminent through this online tool, they would be motivated to prevent it and take preventative measures such as taking medication and quitting smoking.
Myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of death in the world, but it is not easy to predict. The research team pointed out that the reason is that the best-known risk factors for myocardial infarction consistently appear long before the myocardial infarction occurs.
The results of this study were published in the latest issue of the British medical journal “Nature Cardiovascular Research”.
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