Tag: Congestive Heart Failure
Blood test may help identify patients at risk for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy
A new multi-center study led by doctors at Boston Medical Center and Columbia University found that having a genetic variant in the prealbumin gene alone is not sufficient for diagnosis of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in older Black patients. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers discovered that a blood test that measures […]