Identification of acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients using optimized highly sensitive troponin I thresholds.

Conclusions: hs-cTnI levels have a lower specificity for detecting AMI in elderly patients. This lower specificity can be improved by using hs-cTnI thresholds optimized for elderly patients.
PMID: 31159594 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Biomarkers - June 5, 2019 Category: Research Tags: Biomarkers Source Type: research