All patients have it: Italian doctors have discovered the main predictor of a heart attack

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People who are at risk of a myocardial infarction in the near future have a special genetic marker in their blood.

Scientists from the Italian University and Polyclinic Tor Vergata came to this conclusion. Their pilot study allowed them to identify people at high risk of heart attack at an early stage and take urgent measures to save them.

The doctors said that their main goal was to understand why almost all acute coronary syndromes have underlying coronary artery disease, and its cause is a combination of lifestyle and heredity.

Two groups of patients participated in the scientific experiment – with stable coronary heart disease (without a heart attack) and unstable coronary artery disease (or a heart attack).

The doctors found that molecular variants that function as biomarkers can determine who may face acute disease in a short time.

“This is not the first biomarker of heart attack identified so far, but it is the most important. In fact, it allows us to identify those at risk, those who are at high risk, and who need therapeutic interventions and immediate assessments. “Therefore, it opens the door to personalized or precision medicine,” shared the laboratory's director and university rector Giuseppe Novelli. “Having this information could be useful as a predictive test for acute myocardial infarction in patients who arrive at the emergency department,” he added.