Cardiac Ischemia

New marker linked with heart disease in women

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 8th, 2004

A protein called serum amyloid alpha (SAA) has been linked with existing heart disease in women, and higher protein levels were associated with severe coronary artery disease, a new study shows.

Researchers compared the predictive value of SAA to that of C-reactive protein (CRP). They found that while high levels of either can predict a woman's risk for future heart attack, only SAA was linked to existing heart disease.

This is one of several reports from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study published in the February 19, 2004, issue of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. The WISE study, partly funded by...

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