Hair Calcium and CardiovascularDisease

Abstract

The determination of major, minor and trace elements in human
hair shows high promise in clinical medicine and toxicology for the
easy detection of diseases. In particular, the elemental analysis of
human hair is becoming popular for the identification of the major
element calcium in human hair samples in connection with ischaemic
heart disease. Hence, an attempt has been made in the
present work to investigate calcium concentration in human hair,
particularly in patients suffering from coronary heart diseases
through atomic absorption spectrophotometry and X-ray studies. It
is concluded from the results that the south Indian partients suffering
from myocardial infarction belong to the low calcium concentration
peak while in healthy population the calcium level in hair is high.