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Apple recently received FDA approval to alert consumers when atrial fibrillation is detected.
Scientists use urine to analyse metabolites that could provide valuable health information.
Researchers decided to collect urine, it's none invasive and can be collected over long periods of time.
Participants included in this study were the researchers themselves.
Patients were followed over 10 days and a total of 109 urine samples were collected.
Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry were used to determine the metabolic profile for each urine sample.
Team was able to track caffeine, alcohol intakes by looking at the change in metabolomics profiles.
It may be challenging to diagnose medical conditions with a narrow database of validated markers.
Smart toilet could collect the samples, analyse them with a miniature GC-MS system attached.
