Heart Failure: Is There a Breath Test?

Heart Failure: Is There a Breath Test?
Cleveland Clinic researcher Raed Dweik, MD, published research in the high-impact Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggesting that breath analysis could help diagnosis heart failure. Measuring certain molecules in the breath (called a “breathprint”) to detect disease is an exciting area of research that can be applied to various diseases.

Dr. Dweik said, “I call it the new frontier of medical testing, and I think it’s really the future of medicine where you can do something very easy and very simple and convenient for the patient and get a lot of information out of it.” Dr. Dweik is director of Cleveland Clinic’s pulmonary program and a member of the Lerner Research Institute’s Department of Pathobiology.

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http://my.clevelandclinic.org/media_relations/library/2013/2013-03-25-cleveland-clinic-research-uses-breath-test-to-identify-heart-failure-in-patients.aspx