Personalized ranges for blood-test results enable precision diagnostics

Steven J. R. Meex; Kristin Moberg Aakre

doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03854-9

Personalized ranges for blood-test results enable precision diagnostics

Steven J. R. Meex^*, Kristin Moberg Aakre

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Abstract

In medicine, a person's blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person's own stable values. Changes to these values can indicate disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	279-280
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	637
Issue number	8045
Early online date	1 Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03854-9
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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Biological techniques

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