Comments on: Mediterranean Diet: Saliva Can Help Diagnose Heart Attacks http://mediterraneanheart.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/mediterranean-diet-saliva-can-help-diagnose-heart-attacks/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Steve Parker, M.D. http://mediterraneanheart.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/mediterranean-diet-saliva-can-help-diagnose-heart-attacks/#comment-214 Steve Parker, M.D. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:58:08 +0000 http://mediterraneanheart.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-214 I hope this pans out. The current best blood test for acute heart attack is troponin-I, which may take four hours to show up in the bloodstream, plus maybe an extra hour for sample processing. Sounds like the saliva test is several years away, if ever. -Steve http://AdvancedMediterraneanDiet.com/blog/ I hope this pans out. The current best blood test for acute heart attack is troponin-I, which may take four hours to show up in the bloodstream, plus maybe an extra hour for sample processing.

Sounds like the saliva test is several years away, if ever.

-Steve
http://AdvancedMediterraneanDiet.com/blog/

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