Blood Test Diagnoses Heart FailureDANIEL Q. HANEY, AP Medical Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- An international team of scientists developed a new blood-testing method to detect earlier and more accurately if diabetic patients had developed life-threatening complications like heart disease and kidney failure. The study published on Tuesday in the journal Clinical...
Similar to doing an MOT on a car, scientists believe they can run a blood test to check how fast a person's internal organs are ageing, and even predict which ones might soon fail. The Stanford University team say they can monitor 11 major body parts, including the heart, brain and lun...
New Blood Test Promises Patients Early Warning Of Heart FailureResearchers in the US have discovered that testing the blood of patients with stable for high levels of the biomarker NT-proBNP is a reliable predictor of serious and fatal heart-related incidents, including and . The research is ...
Blood test for pregnancy Test for evidence of cancer Prostate test Presence of abnormal levels of drugs or chemicals Check for overdose Check for inherited disease Heart attack Blood group Hormone level - e.g to confirm menopause or whether you are ovulating ...
The first blood test to diagnose inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) could be in use in as little as a year, following the discovery of a molecular signal in the blood by Queen Mary University of London researchers. The research, published today in the journalCirculation, offers hop...
Two relatively simple methods, an ultrasound investigation and a blood test to measure the level of a substance known as BNP, can predict survival and future heart failure following acute coronary syndromes. This is the conclusion of a thesis presented at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...
blood test Thesaurus Medical Legal Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia blood test n. 1.An analysis of a sample of blood, especially for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. 2.The process of obtaining blood for such a test:went to the clinic for a blood test. ...
How long after drinking can you pass a breathalyzer test? This depends entirely on your metabolism. Some digest and pass alcohol faster while some are slow. In general, breathalyzers can detect alcohol in a person's system 15 minutes after consumption and about 12 to 18 hours later. How do...
Liver blood tests are used to detect liver diseases such as fatty liver, cirrhosis, hepatitis, and liver failure. Understand the result with high, low, and normal results of AST and ALT. Symptoms of elevated or high liver enzymes in the blood include fe