Next-gen troponin test can diagnose a heart attack within one hour

The latest generation of troponin testing can detect a heart attack in an hour. The rapid diagnosis promises to save more lives at risk from the deadly disease, reported a NewsWise article.

Mainly employed in emergency departments and outpatient cardiology clinics, this test measures the amount of troponin T in the blood of a person deemed at risk from myocardial infarction.

A regulatory protein involved in the contraction of skeletal and cardiac muscles, troponin T is released into the blood when the myocardium get injured by a heart attack or similar incident.