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Test made in Longford can help docs spot if you're having a heart attack

New tool could reduce time to diagnosis of a cardiac event – and is especially helpful in women.

A DIAGNOSTIC TEST developed and being manufactured in Longford could be an important weapon in the arsenal of doctors trying to assess if someone is having a heart attack.

The test – called the ARCHITECT Stat High Sensitive Troponin-I – is being used at the Mater public and private hospitals in Dublin at the moment and it is hoped that it will be rolled out at other cardiology units across the country.

It is able to measure very low levels of the protein known as cardiac troponin, which indicates someone is having a heart attack. However, previous tests through blood sample could only measure this protein when it reached a certain level, which could delay diagnosis by a few precious hours.

Dr Niall Mahon said that this test – developed by Abbott Longford – could “speed up” the diagnosis of serious heart attacks and help medics to intervene quicker. The speed factor is particularly helpful in diagnosing women who might be having a heart attack as they can show different symptoms from men and are generally under-diagnosed and under-treated for heart attacks.

He said:

The high-sensitive assay (test) may help physicians to rule in and rule out acute myocardial injury… the sensitivity of this assay is unique in that it has potential for earlier diagnosis in women.

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    Mute Carlo Gambino
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    Aug 11th 2014, 6:34 AM

    As long as the financial institutions are stringent and dilligent in the way they lend money this is great news for the economy . This will create massive employment across the board .

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    Mute The Animal
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    Aug 11th 2014, 7:56 AM

    Break out the jumbo breakfast rolls lads… The builders arses are back in fashion…!

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    Mute Glen
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:58 AM

    As someone who worked in the construction industry for years, and always wore a belt. Builders bums are a sight that you can never get use to

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    Mute GATHERINGYOURMONEY14
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    Aug 11th 2014, 11:34 AM

    A load of fairy tale figures, but no hard facts from a bust foreign bank trying it’s best to sell up and leave the country asap.

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    Mute Declan Beach
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:17 AM

    most houses are being bought with cash so no morgage needed. I do a lot of work for people who have retired and sold there large homes and are using the money for investment properties. also most have taken there life savings out because there making nothing on intrest and the dirt has rocketed from 3% to 30% in the last budget. Or there borrowing on there assets for huge morgages on multiple property’s. also rents are shooting through the roof because of greed and no kind of control.
    so its not houses being bought as family homes but for investment property that has demand high at the moment.
    and when intrest rates go up we will soon see how property prices are affected. and the ECB dont care about the irish housing market. they will do what they think is needed for the greater good of Europe.

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    Mute SeanieRyan
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:26 AM

    The ECB will remain dictated to by the German economy’s nees not the European economic need.

    Have they ever taken the greater good of Europe in to consideration?

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:46 AM

    Well Ryan. They did give us a few ‘tens of billions’….remember?

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 11th 2014, 9:08 AM

    Most houses bought for cash? I doubt that.

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    Mute Jo45
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    Aug 11th 2014, 9:19 AM

    @Declan please learn the difference between ‘there’ and ‘their’

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    Mute Aus Tereo
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    Aug 11th 2014, 9:34 AM

    DIRT has gone from 3% to 30% in the last budget? Now I’m all for knocking the government but that is highly incorrect!

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    Mute Inntalitarian
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    Aug 11th 2014, 1:29 PM

    And there and they’re

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 11th 2014, 6:39 AM

    100% mortgages are widely available again….

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Aug 11th 2014, 7:46 AM

    Don’t think so Glen…main banks will go as far as 90% and even at that you’d need to be the seventh son of a seventh son born during a month with an ‘r’ in it.

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 11th 2014, 7:52 AM

    Tony. See your friendly mortgage broker.

    These are the chaps who known the right fibs.

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    Mute SeanieRyan
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:21 AM

    No they are not.

    20% deposits are more common than 100% mortgages.

    No one can say that mortgages are being given out freely

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    Mute Glen Hoddle
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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:26 AM

    Nobody did, Ryan.

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    Mute Will Derbylight
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    Aug 11th 2014, 10:36 AM

    Its easy to get a 100% mortgage now – but, perhaps, not as easy as before. Lenders are, at least, reading the application forms.

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    Mute Robespierre
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    Aug 11th 2014, 10:29 AM

    Another day, another native ad from the Journal’s owner DAFT media.

    #vested interest

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    Aug 11th 2014, 8:55 AM

    The construction Industry has been vitiated largely to the indiference of media commentators. The vast numbers who emigrated from Ireland during recession were too often regarded as “having made ther money” during the boom. True only of those at the top of the industry . Breakfast roll man was just earning a living no more. His absence regarded at best here as some kind of accaeptable collateral damage. His absense will be truly missed soon enough as recesion lifts.

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    Aug 11th 2014, 9:13 AM

    will Paddy ever learn ? Doubtful. Buy buy buy buy! before it’s too late.

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    Mute GATHERINGYOURMONEY14
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    Aug 11th 2014, 11:42 AM

    The country would be very fortunate if it could get the 10′s of thousands of unfinished homes in Dublin and around the finished and sold off during this false upward blip.
    A blip that is basically fueled by nervous large savers buying up people’s homes (in certain postcodes) in the fear Cyprus style cash grab, nothing more.

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    Aug 11th 2014, 11:43 AM

    typo sorry
    “in Dublin and around the country”

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    Aug 11th 2014, 12:01 PM

    Before anyone even considers building anymore new overpriced shoeboxes because of this farcical “housing crisis” fabricated by the property media.

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    Aug 11th 2014, 1:27 PM

    Can we please learn from our mistakes in the past and not throw up poorly planned, shoddily constructed housing estates with no facilities.

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