Objective To explore earlier diagnostic value of ischemia modified albumin(IMA)in acute coronary syndrome(ACS) patients.Methods We detected serum IMA and CK-MB in 117 patients with ACS and 100 healthy controls to analyze the diagnos-tic value of IMA in ACS.Results When the critical value of 73.25 U/mL,serum IMA testing determine the ACS of the sensitivity, specific,positive predictive value and negative predictive value of 89.6%,86.0%,84.93% and 86.0% respectively.IMA levels in serum in patients with AMI group was obviously higher than that of healthy control group(P <0.05).Sensitivity could be improved to 91.5% when detected IMA and CK-MB together.And the specific was 71.5%.Conclusion Serum IMA can be used as sensitive index of early diagnosis and risk stratification of ACS.Detecting IMA and CK-MB can improve the diagnostic sensitivity of ACS.