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What your saliva tells you about your heart health

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Early detection can prevent heart failure and other complications, but screening is currently time consuming. EU-funded researchers are looking to change this with a cost-effective tool capable of detecting a patient’s risk of heart failure from their saliva.

date:  03/10/2016

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Project:  Optical point of care system for heart f...

acronym:  COSMOS

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The COSMOS project focuses on biomarkers – measurable indicators used by scientists to identify a specific biological condition. This is an increasingly influential line of research for heart disease, and specific biomarkers have been found to play a key role in regulating cardiac structure and function. Others could signal the progression of a disease.

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