Heart injury biomarker may help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitalization, new study shows (Common high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T test)

Medical Xpress / University of St Andrews / PLoS ONE ^ | April 21, 2023 | Dr. Alexander Liu et al

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A study suggests that a frequently used medical test for heart injury could one day be used to help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitalization.

Cardiac troponins are proteins that form part of the heart's contractile machinery and are released into the bloodstream when the heart is damaged.

Existing studies since 2020 have shown that COVID-19 patients who have elevated troponin levels are more likely to die or suffer adverse clinical outcomes compared with those who have normal troponin levels.

The paper reports on a study of 191 patients with COVID-19, retrospectively looking at the ability of a subtype of cardiac troponin—high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T—to predict which patients suffered mortality, and which patients did not.

It found that having an elevated troponin test did not necessarily mean that the patient suffered mortality—it was inaccurate in predicting individual patient risk of death. This is most likely because, in real life, the patient population is diverse and there are factors other than heart damage which can cause elevated troponin tests. This observation may be the reason why clinicians are unable to use cardiac troponin alone to risk-stratify patients at present.

The study also found that if a COVID-19 patient had normal cardiac troponin levels, the prognosis was very good. This is because normal troponin levels can potentially identify low-risk patients.

Dr. Liu said, "The results indicated that rather than going along with the general message in the existing literature—which is that high troponin levels are linked to poor prognosis in COVID-19—we realized that as a diagnostic test, a high troponin level is unlikely able to accurately identify a patient at high risk of mortality. Instead, it may be better to exploit the ability of a normal troponin to rule out the risk of death in our patients.

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A high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T showing effectively no problem means you likely don’t need to worry about death as a complication of COVID-19.

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[Deaf Smith]

So these Covid-19 patients with heart injuries had nothing to do with them getting the China Virus 19 “vaccine”?

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On a related note...

In the following video, the doctor discusses the high number of retractions for articles about Covid. In one instance he shows a diagram and points out the conclusions presented, are false. The author has been notified, but still they don't chanage the false conclusion.

Just by chance, I'm sure, the data falsely asserts that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is more likely to occur following Covid infection compared with POTS following Covid vaccination. But the author is leaving the data and the chart intentionally incorrect, and then this data is cited by MSM types.

An alarming retraction rate for scientific publications on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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[Honest Nigerian]

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