Cardiologists at Emory University School of Medicine have found a way to independently predict if someone is at risk of heart failure. This is accomplished by testing blood levels of resistin, a hormone produced by fat cells in the body.
Javed Butler, MD., MPH director of heart failure at Emory University stated that, "this is the strongest predictor of new-onset heart failure that we have found." This method can also be used for other biomarkers and risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
For every 10 nanograms per milliliter increase in resistin levels in the blood, the risk of onset …read more