June 18, 2018, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Diagnosing type 2 diabetes in clinical practice may require only a single blood sample, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Credit: CC0 Public Domain The study, published June 19 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, found evidence that a...
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An initial step toward blood tests for early detection of cancer
In a study of 124 patients with advanced breast, lung, and prostate cancers, a new, high-intensity genomic sequencing approach detected circulating tumor DNA at a high rate. In 89 percent of patients, at least one genetic change detected in the tumor was also detected in the blood. Overall, 627 (73 percent) genetic changes found...
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Routine blood tests can help measure a patient’s future risk for chronic disease, new study finds
A new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that combining information from routine blood tests and age of primary care patients can create a score that measures future risk of chronic disease. This simple risk score, termed the Intermountain Chronic Disease Risk Score, or ICHRON, can...
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