Scientists from American Chemical Society have developed a simple, thermometer-like device that can help doctors diagnose heart attacks with minimal materials and cost.
Heart attack diagnosis involves measuring the level of troponin, a protein in the patient's blood. The concentration of troponin rises when blood is cut off from the heart, and the muscle is damaged, but assessing the levels is expensive.
Heart Attack
Heart attack is the death of the heart muscle due to loss of blood supply. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Other names for heart attack include acute myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, and coronary occlusion.
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Sangmin Jeon and his colleagues invented a thermometer-like device, which is a sensitive and an accessible test that will detect troponin in a simpler and a cost-effective way.
Jeon explained that the process involves a glass vial, specialized nanoparticles, a drop of ink and a skinny tube. When the human serum with troponin is mixed with the nanoparticles and put in the vial, the ink climbs up a protruding tube just like a thermometer.
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Heart attack is the death of the heart muscle due to loss of blood supply. Simple guidelines to avoid heart attack are listed.
The researchers concluded that with the help of their new device the number of deaths related to cardiovascular disease will decrease as three-quarters of this disease occur in low-and-middle-income countries that can't afford costly machines for diagnosis.
Source: Medindia
Heart Attack- Lifestyle risks
Heart attack is the death of the heart muscle due to loss of blood supply. Simple guidelines to avoid heart attack are listed.
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The researchers concluded that with the help of their new device the number of deaths related to cardiovascular disease will decrease as three-quarters of this disease occur in low-and-middle-income countries that can't afford costly machines for diagnosis.
Source: Medindia
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