A CHEAP and easy blood test that detects the earliest signs of furry arteries could help reduce the number of people dying from heart disease.
One in three people will die from heart problems before the age of 70. At the moment, the best method of diagnosis is an angiogram, which involves injecting a contrast-enhancing chemical into individual blood vessels and X-raying them. It’s expensive, time-consuming and risky. But now researchers have developed a test that needs only a few drops of blood.
The technique looks at the metabolites in blood, and was developed jointly by researchers from Imperial College,…
