Dima Shulkin: A Novel Monocyte-Based Biomarker of Cardiovascular Risk
Dima Shulkin, Co-Founder and CTO at RobotDreams GmbH, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“What if a simple blood test could flag hidden heart disease long before any symptoms appear?
A 2024 medRxiv preprint by Almarri and colleagues (not yet peer-reviewed) explored exactly that.
They studied symptom-free adults, first a small group of 39, then 151 more in Nanjing, China, measuring immune cells called monocytes (part of the body’s defense team) and how often they clump with platelets.
The readings became a new score, MARS, which tracked real artery damage far more closely than the standard risk calculators doctors use now.
Early research, but a real hint that a blood sample may reveal what checklists miss.”
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