The invention provides a method for detecting 
ischemia modified 
albumin. According to the method, the characteristic that the binding capacity of the ischemic modified 
albumin and the 
cobalt is weakened is utilized, free 
cobalt in a 
reaction system is detected by using chemical reagents, the change of the content of the free 
cobalt is expressed through the change of 
absorbance, the concentration of the 
ischemia modified 
albumin is indirectly expressed, and a color developing agent used in the detection is 2,4-dimercaptopyrimidine and is used for detecting the free cobalt in the 
reaction system. The method has the advantages that the stability of the color developing agent of the 2,4-dimercaptopyrimidine is higher, the analysis sensitivity is higher, the price is lower, the detection resultis reported based on the concentration of the free cobalt, and the problem that the 
absorbance of an IMA (
ischemia modified albumin) detection result is unstable due to the fact that the performanceof instruments or reagents is different and unstable when the 
absorbance is adopted for report can be solved. The invention further provides a detection kit for the 
ischemia modified albumin. The detection kit comprises the reagents used in the method.