A new study looking at deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease and all causes suggests that an inflammatory marker detected in blood tests in middle-aged adults can better predict the risk of death compared with another similar biomarker. The study is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
These findings can be useful in the developing area of personalized medicine.
“Omics technologies are exciting, as they allow the concurrent assessment of many biomarkers, some of which may turn out to be important to detect preclinical states of diseases or be markers of future disease,” states Prof. Archana Singh-Manoux, Inserm (France) and University College London (UK).
