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Rapid blood test to detect severe disease risk of Covid patients – The Tribune India
The researchers found this association held independently of a patient’s age, sex and underlying health conditions
New York, January 16
Researchers, including one of Indian origin, have shown that a relatively simple and rapid blood test could predict—within a day of a hospital admission—which patients with Covid-19 are at highest risk of severe complications or death.
The study published in the JCI Insight journal indicates that the blood test measures levels of mitochondrial DNA, a unique type of DNA molecule that normally resides inside the energy factories of cells.
Mitochondrial DNA spilling out of cells…
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