Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study found that risk for systemic sclerosis was greatest in patients with the highest gamma-glutamyl ...

The purpose of this study published in the December 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine was to identify chromosomal regions containing genes that affect the variation in the plasma levels ...

A simple blood test may identify people who have an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The test measures ...

Innsbruck, Austria - A test used primarily for liver function and alcohol consumption may be an important new marker for cardiovascular risk, according to the results of a new, large, epidemiological ...

The development of type 2 diabetes among middle-aged Japanese men is associated with parallel increases in levels of the liver enzymes alanine aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyl transferase, ...

This release is available in Chinese. Two indicators of liver function, glutamyl transferase (GGT) and albumin (ALB) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. It is known that the ...

A simple blood test may identify people who have an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. A simple blood ...