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International team of scientists have identified a unique “breathprint” for 17 diseases with 86% accuracy.
Noninvasive, inexpensive, and miniaturized portable device screens breath samples to classify and diagnose several types of diseases.
Researchers analyzed breath samples collected from 1404 patients who were either healthy or had one of 17 different diseases.
Each disease produces a unique breathprint, based on differing amounts of 13 volatile organic chemical (VOC) components.
COMMENT: I’m often proclaiming the future of healthcare is precision medicine using a drop of blood – but using my breath would be even easier
The study was published in the ACS Nano journal.
