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Evaluating Cardiac Risk - Traditional & Emerging Risk Factors

Evaluating Cardiac Risk - Article Index


Traditional and Emerging risk factors
In the last several years a number of additional risk factors have been identified that might allow better identification of patients headed for a heart attack.

At our center we Identify and treat these cardiac risk factors aggressively in order to improve long term outcome and quality of life.

Consider this fact 50% of the people whom suffer a heart attack have no major independent risk factors that are commonly evaluated. These common risk factors include high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, smoking and diabetes mellitus. With only 50% of the patients with coronary artery disease fall into the basket of current risk factors, have prompted researchers to seek additional culprits in the development of arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as new markers that might reveal more subtle evidence of risk.
Traditional Blood Bio-Markers
  • Total Cholesterol
  • LDL, HDL
  • Triglycerides
  • Glucose
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    Not So Traditional Blood Markers
  • Fasting Insulin
  • Glycosylated Hemoglobin
  • Triglyceride/HDL
  • Percentage Body Fat
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    Emerging Blood Bio-Markers For Detection Of Cardiac Risk & Follow Up Treatment Used At Our Center Include The Following
  • Highly Sensitive C-Reactive Protein (CRP)
  • Serum Amyloid A
  • Homocysteine
  • Lipoprotein (A)
  • Fibrinogen Levels
  • Subtype LDL

    • Much has yet to be learned, and while experts are divided on which of these areas will prove most important, they do agree that the traditional risk factors and recommendations will remain firmly in place, new findings may allow more precise targeting of preventative measures, whether or not CHD is an obvious threat. It is the use of all these potential risk factors that we evaluate and follow up on during treatment.

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