{"id":1374,"date":"2009-11-30T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/even-very-low-levels-of-cardiac-troponin-t-linked-to-heart-failure-cardiovascular-death\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:06","slug":"even-very-low-levels-of-cardiac-troponin-t-linked-to-heart-failure-cardiovascular-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2009\/11\/30\/even-very-low-levels-of-cardiac-troponin-t-linked-to-heart-failure-cardiovascular-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Very Low Levels of Cardiac Troponin T Linked to Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even very low levels of cardiac troponin T are associated with increased risk for heart failure and cardiovascular death among patients with stable heart disease, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/nejm\/content\/full\/2009\/1129\/0805299\">industry-funded study<\/a> in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Using a highly sensitive assay, researchers tested for troponin T in nearly 3700 adults with stable coronary artery disease and preserved left ventricular function, and then followed them for roughly 5 years. (The assay is not commercially available.)<\/p>\n<p>The test detected very low troponin T levels in nearly all subjects \u2014 levels that would have gone undetected using conventional assays, the researchers write. Even at these low concentrations, increasing troponin T was associated with elevated risk for cardiovascular death or heart failure (but not MI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even very low levels of cardiac troponin T are associated with increased risk for heart failure and cardiovascular death among patients with stable heart disease, according to an industry-funded study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Using a highly sensitive assay, researchers tested for troponin T in nearly 3700 adults with stable coronary artery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}