Critical Diagnostics, a biomarker company focused on cardiovascular diseases, today announced positive results from a multi-center study in ambulatory heart failure patients, which confirmed that a contemporary panel of biomarkers, including ST2, was strongly predictive of risk and significantly improved the likelihood of identifying patients at risk for adverse events, compared to the most commonly used clinical risk score in heart failure, the Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM). The paper (“Multiple Biomarkers for Risk Prediction in Chronic Heart Failure”) was published online in Circulation: Heart Failure on February 23, 2012 (http://circheartfailure.ahajournals.org/).
