According to the research from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), a simple blood test may be able to predict whether patients are at high risk of heart attack.
Prof Peter Kuhn, who led the team, said, The goal of this paper was to establish evidence that these circulating endothelial cells can be detected reliably in patients following a heart attack and do not exist in healthy controls, which we have achieved.
The study shows that heart attack patients had significantly higher levels of these cells in their blood stream when compared to the two other groups, and researchers believe that endothelial cells enter the bloodstream as a result of diseased plaque building up, rupturing and ulcerating in the arteries, which triggers inflammation.
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