{"id":1232,"date":"2024-09-02T00:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/womens-heart-disease-risk-could-be-predicted-up-to-30-years-in-advance-with-one-blood-test-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:03:48","slug":"womens-heart-disease-risk-could-be-predicted-up-to-30-years-in-advance-with-one-blood-test-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/womens-heart-disease-risk-could-be-predicted-up-to-30-years-in-advance-with-one-blood-test-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s heart disease risk could be predicted up to 30 years in advance with one blood test, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Predicting a woman\u2019s future heart disease risk<\/a> could be as simple as administering a single blood test to screen for three risk factors.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday \u2014 research that was also presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress this weekend.<\/p>\n

The study, which included nearly 30,000 women averaging 55 years of age, measured two types of fat in the bloodstream along with a certain type of protein with a blood test in 1993, then monitored the participants\u2019 health<\/a> for a 30-year period, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

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“The strongest predictor of risk was a simple blood measure of inflammation known as high sensitivity C-reactive protein, or hsCRP, followed by cholesterol and lipoprotein(a),” lead study author Dr. Paul Ridker, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston<\/a>, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

“Knowing all three predicted risks not just at five or 10 years, but at 20 and 30 years, gives us a road map for how to target specific therapies for the individual patient, rather than an overly simple \u2018one-size-fits-all\u2019 approach,” he said.<\/p>\n

C-reactive protein (CRP) is a protein made by the liver that rises when inflammation occurs in the body, according to Mayo Clinic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

High levels of the protein indicate an elevated risk of heart disease.<\/p>\n

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LDL cholesterol<\/a> \u2014 also known as the “bad” cholesterol \u2014 can build up in the arteries and raise the chances of heart attack or stroke, Mayo Clinic noted.<\/p>\n

Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), is a type of LDL cholesterol that can also cause plaque buildup in the arteries.<\/p>\n

Women with the highest levels of LDL cholesterol were found to have a 36% increased associated risk for heart disease compared to those with the lowest levels, the researchers found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those with the highest levels of Lp(a) had a 33% greater risk.<\/p>\n

The highest levels of CRP put women at a 70% increased associated risk.<\/p>\n

Women who had high levels of all three measures were 1\u00bd times more likely to experience a stroke<\/a> and more than three times as likely to have coronary heart disease, the researchers found.<\/p>\n

While most doctors measure cholesterol, very few measure hsCRP and Lp(a), Ridker noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“It is a truism of medicine that doctors will not treat what they do not measure.”<\/p>\n

The fact that a single combination blood test predicted risk 30 years later is “astonishing,” the researcher said.<\/p>\n

“It tells us how much silent risk we simply are unaware of, and gives us an opportunity to start preventive efforts far earlier in life,” he added.<\/p>\n

Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst for Fox News and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center<\/a>, was not involved in the study, but said it is a “big step forward” in using a combination of blood tests to determine a woman\u2019s cardiac risk.<\/p>\n

“This is a large, convincing study that puts together three predictive blood tests that haven’t been looked at in this way before,” Siegel told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

“Since inflammation can cause heart attacks, it is confirmatory that an elevated inflammation marker (CRP) conveys a 70% increased risk for heart disease,” he went on.<\/p>\n

“LDL and Lp(a) have both previously shown an increased risk of heart disease.”<\/p>\n

Siegel predicts that in the future, blood markers like these will be used in combination with artificial intelligence<\/a> to determine the risk of heart disease and stroke.<\/p>\n

Based on these findings, Ridker recommends that patients ask their physicians<\/a> to specifically measure hsCRP and Lp(a).<\/p>\n

“The time has come for our guidelines to change.”<\/p>\n

In Ridker\u2019s experience, women tend to be less concerned about heart disease than men.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, our traditional screening guidelines rarely identify at-risk women<\/a> until they are in their late 60s or 70s,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Yet prevention must start in our 30s and 40s for it to be most effective.”<\/p>\n

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While prevention efforts should initially focus on a heart-healthy diet, regular exercise<\/a>, smoking cessation and stress management, some patients will benefit from drug therapies to reduce inflammation and lower cholesterol levels, according to Ridker.<\/p>\n

The main limitation of the study is that the women who participated were health professionals<\/a>, the researchers acknowledged.<\/p>\n

“Yet in other settings, we know this is also true for men \u2014 and, if anything, an even greater concern for minority individuals,” Ridker said.<\/p>\n

For more Health articles, visit <\/strong><\/a>www.foxnews.com\/health<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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