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Search the verified studies by condition, biomarker, design, year, horizon and validation. Today the library holds the studies that have passed the full verification protocol; the ones still being checked are not shown as if they had.

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Search the verified studies by condition, biomarker, design, year, horizon and validation. Today the library holds the studies that have passed the full verification protocol; the ones still being checked are not shown as if they had.

  • Nature Medicine · 2011

    Five amino acids in the blood, twelve years before diabetes

    A study of 2,422 adults followed for 12 years: higher levels of five amino acids were linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, independently of weight and blood sugar. An association in a group, replicated in a second group.

  • The Lancet · 2009

    Blood sugar does not jump: it climbs for years, then accelerates

    A study of 6,538 British civil servants measured repeatedly over 13 years: in the 505 who developed diabetes, blood sugar and insulin had been drifting for years and changed sharply three to six years before diagnosis. A description of a group, not a test.

  • Nature Medicine · 2024

    Five to twenty proteins in the blood, and the risk of 218 diseases

    A study of 41,931 adults in the UK Biobank: for 67 of 218 diseases, a small set of blood proteins measured once improved the prediction of who would fall ill within ten years, compared with age, sex and lifestyle. For most diseases it did not. Replicated for six diseases in a second cohort.