Can a blood test detect heart disease?

Answer:
Yes...there are certain tests in blood such as enzymatic diagnosis. It can detect certain cardiac enzymes when present can represent certain heart disease . Cardiac markers or cardiac enzymes are proteins from cardiac tissue found in the blood. These proteins are released into the bloodstream when damage to the heart occurs, as in the case of a myocardial infarction.

SGOT and LDH were used to assess cardiac injury. Then it was found that disproportional elevation of the MB subtype of the enzyme creatine kinase (CK) was very specific for myocardial injury. Current guidelines are generally in favor of troponin sub-units I or T, which are very specific for the heart muscle and are thought to rise before permanent injury develops.

Go see a medical technologist or hematologist to have your blood tested

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NO but if you or your partner were to rip out your heart you could check for yourself

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Yes, bloodwork can detect heart disease. They will draw a tube of blood and check the enzyme levels in your blood, with this they can also tell if you've had a heartattack. My advice get it checked ASAP!! My husband lives with heart disease and at least if you know what is going on you know what signs you will need to look for .

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Yes, certain blood tests can detect if a person has a heart disease. Heart monitors, ECG's and other scans will give best results since there are so many kinds of heart conditions.

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It's been claimed that a CRP (c reactive protein) test can be an indicator of heart disease. CRP is a screening test and the results indicate that some type of inflammation is occurring but not what the cause is. Cholesterol and high blood pressure are probably more clinically significant indicators of heart disease. Cholesterol tests are a type of blood test but even a high cholesterol level alone is not sufficient to diagnose heart disease.

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