Patent ID: 7608458

Claim:
A method of assessing a patient for risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), the method comprising: determining an amount of at least one SCD-associated protein in the patient; assessing the risk as a function of the determination; determining occurrence of at least one class identifier that assesses the patient as having increased risk of SCD; combining results of the occurrence of the class identifier and the amount of SCD-associated protein; wherein assessing the patient is based on the combined results; and wherein the SCD-associated protein is selected from a group of proteins having characteristics consisting of 10,146.5 Da and pI=9+; 15,006 Da and pI=9+; 166,582 Da and pI=5-7; 10,948 Da and pI=9+; 11,991 Da and pI=5-7; 10,552.4 Da and pI=9; 43,529.4 Da and pI=9; and 13,806.8 Da and pI=9.