WALTHAM, Mass., May 11, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD) announced today that it has successfully completed an important phase in the development of its AMIPredict™ diagnostic product candidate. AMIPredict is being developed to identify patients with a high risk of suffering heart attack or stroke within the next two to four years. The AMIPredict test is an in vitro diagnostic multivariate index assay that simultaneously measures multiple protein biomarkers in blood. The completed phase of development involved two milestones, the verification of AMIPredict's performance in a second independent study and the migration of the test from the original discovery platform to an automated, high-throughput platform.
