Highland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in the United States. Highland Heights is a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Highland Heights was originally part of Mayfield Township. The population was 8,345 at the 2010 census. Highland Heights is located at 41Â°33â²04â³N 81Â°28â²17â³W / 41.551051Â°N 81.471273Â°W / 41.551051; -81.471273 (41.551051, -81.471273). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13 km2), all of it land.
How high or low the levels are can indicate a problem with your liver. Liquidlibrary/liquidlibrary/Getty Images. The SGOT Test. The SGOT (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transminase) test, also known as an AST test, measures the amount of a protein enzyme called glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase occurring in your blood. This enzyme is normally found in the liver, heart muscles, muscles and red blood cells.
AST (SGOT) is normally found in a variety of tissues including liver, heart, muscle, kidney, and the brain. It is released into the serum when any one of these tissues is damaged. For example, AST level in serum is elevated in heart attacks or with muscle injury. It is therefore, not a highly specific indicator of liver injury as its elevation can occur as a result of other injured tissues. ALT (SGPT) is, by contrast, normally found largely in the liver.