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A Proteomics-Based Approach for Prediction of Different Cardiovascular Diseases and Dementia

Circulation

BACKGROUND:Many studies have explored whether individual plasma protein biomarkers improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction. CONCLUSIONS:Measurement of targeted protein biomarkers produced superior prediction of aggregated and disaggregated cardiovascular events. Circulation, Ahead of Print.

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Magnus Nossen, edits by Smith The patient in today's case is an 85-year-old male with a history of COPD and dementia. When there are QS-waves, one should always think about LV aneurysm, but ST to QRS ratio and T-wave to QRS ratio are far too large and not compatible with left ventricular aneurysm.