SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Critical Diagnostics, makers of the Presage® ST2 Assay, announced today that a six-minute videotape by Antoni Bayes-Genis, MD PhD., head of Cardiology Service at Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, in Barcelona Spain discussing results of a study just completed on the use of biomarkers over conventional clinical assessments for risk stratification of heart failure patients has been posted on YouTube for immediate viewing. To watch the video, please go to: http://youtu.be/VySAOdOQyxk. The study followed 876 heart failure patients with a mean age of 70.3 years for a period of 40 months. During this follow up period, 311 patients died. Researchers compared 11 clinical variables, including age, sex, ischemic etiology of heart failure, left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association functional class, diabetes, renal function, beta blocker treatment, ace inhibitor treatment, sodium and hemoglobin biomarkers, which are routinely used to stratify heart failure risk against three biomarkers: NT-proBNP from Roche (OTC: RHHBY), high-sensitivity troponin T and Critical Diagnostics’ ST2.
