5 Weird Things Your Blood Can Tell You

Published on December 5, 2019
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Blood is a pretty remarkable diagnostic tool! It doesn’t just tell you about blood-related diseases, it can reveal information about everything from your brain to your unborn fetus.

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Sources:

Preterm Babies
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1133
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/modf-btm060618.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673608601361
https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4755-10-S1-S2#Tab3

Concussions
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/m-sbt082119.php
https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000473#ref-8
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5821170/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721136/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/glial-fibrillary-acidic-protein
https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/bmjpo/3/1/e000473.full.pdf
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)30482-5/fulltext

Artery Blockage
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081270/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211762
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/dumc-btf013019.php

Depression
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/34/8627

Alcohol Use Disorder
https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/50/5/519/198522
https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/41/4/431/162422
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1556-4029.13874

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