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ecj-1631	Lippi, Giuseppe; Cervellin, Gianfranco	Counterpoint: highly-sensitive troponin immunoassays in the emergency department	2013	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2402	92	43	Although some unquestion- able advantages have emerged from the use of HS troponins, yet there are some drawbacks that are now putting to the test several emer- gency physicians, as well as some laboratory professionals. In an article published 4 years ago, Giannoni et al. already emphasized that the concentration of troponin(s) steadily increases across decades of ages, and is con- sistently higher in males than females, with values being nearly 15-fold higher in healthy men over 70 as compared with healthy women under 20.5 More recently, increased values of HS troponin in older men were also reported by Normann et al., as a result of a higher preva- lence of silent cardiovascular disease in this population, an aspect that might dramatically unbalance the diagnostic performance of these biomarkers, especially for identifying NSET- MI.6	cache/ecj-1631.pdf	txt/ecj-1631.txt