Blood test can predict 67 diseases 10 years early

A blood test can predict 67 major diseases including cancer and dementia up to 10 years early, scientists have shown.

Experts discovered that dozens of diseases have distinctive protein signatures which act like fingerprints, flagging up the presence of conditions up to a decade before diagnosis.

Diseases which can be spotted include motor neurone disease, diabetes, heart failure, leukaemia, cataracts, several cancers, gout, liver cirrhosis, arthritis and angina.

The discovery was made after studying the thousands of proteins in the blood plasma of more than 40,000 participants of the UK Biobank and comparing it to information on future diagnoses from electronic health records.

By Sarah Knapton,

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