Blog - Atherosclerosis

• 12 \ 08 \ 2019

  Procalcitonin: A new biomarker for the cardiologist

   

  Procalcitonin is a biochemical marker that holds great promise for the management of infectious diseases, particularly infections of the respiratory tract and sepsis. 

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• 04 \ 02 \ 2019

  In a new study, higher serum Uromodulin predicts lower coronary artery calcification and diabetic kidney disease

  
  Uromodulin - also known as Tamm-Horsfall protein - is exclusively produced in the thick ascending limb of loop of Henle in the kidneys and is the most abundant protein in the urine of healthy people but is also found in blood. 

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