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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The number one killer in America — heart disease.


There’s now a new test that can predict a heart attack years — as many as seven years — before the patient has one.
Doctors don’t even look at your heart to conduct this test. They look at your fingers.

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During Murphy’s EndoPat test, doctors place blood flow sensors on one finger on each hand. Then a blood pressure cuff was inflated to stop blood flow to one hand.

After five minutes, the cuff is deflated and the sensors then measure recovering blood flow.

In a normal patient, you see blood flow stop with the inflated cuff and then a rebound surge in blood flow. In an abnormal test, blood flow only
recovers to what it was before the stoppage. This signals potential trouble in the heart.
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