Posted on 08/21/2019 9:06:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have developed a new blood test that can predict whether you’ll die within the next 10 years
While it’s not exactly the most cheerful thought for a Wednesday morning, one day, all of us will die.
But if you could find out exactly when you'll die, would you want to know?
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have developed a new blood test that can predict whether you’ll die within the next 10 years.
The test relies on biomarkers in the blood linked to various factors that appear to affect your risk of death.
To develop the test, the researchers analysed 44,168 participants aged 18 to 109 - 5,512 of who died during follow-up.
An analysis of the participants’ blood revealed 14 biomarkers that were associated with an increased risk of death.
These biomarkers were linked to various factors, including immunity, circulating fat, inflammation and glucose control.
This suggests that in the future, a sample of your blood could be analysed for the presence of these biomarkers, to indicate when you’ll die.
In the study, published in Nature Communications , the researchers, led by Joris Deelen, explained: “We subsequently show that the prediction accuracy of 5- and 10-year mortality based on a model containing the identified biomarkers and sex is better than that of a model containing conventional risk factors for mortality.”
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If they take too much, you’ll die in the next five minutes...
i can administer a blood test that can tell if you are going to die in the next thirty seconds...
buwahahahaha
I don’t think they need but a few milliliters, not a quart...............
We are all going to die in 12.5 years due to climate change so don’t bother with this.
Oh, ok...
Test ]on RBG?
Does Medicare cover it?
{cymbal crash}
Trust me, and you won't even realize your gone....
My money's on Saturday.
Seriously, shouldn't that be "each of us will die one day?"
-PJ
Where’s the Star Trek thingy where you zap the blood to determine nutritional deficiencies and then zap them again to bring nutrient levels back to ‘normal’?
People over 90 get the test free?
Here, hold muh beer and take muh blood....
and if you don’t do you get your money back?
or may they come and kill you so the products reputation isn’t damaged?
“But if you could find out exactly when you’ll die, would you want to know?”
It is not for the person to know the manner or the hour of the transition to the next plane of existence.
There is no certainty of eternal existence on this earth, an event never recorded in all time, and like a CD, the song eventually does end.
In the end, you shall lose everything, your youth, your friends, your family, your wealth, all the glories you have won in this lifetime, your memories, your exquisite good looks, your wealth, and eventually, life itself. The best you can do is to make the retreat into the final corner as difficult as possible for those who would try to drive you into the corner before your are ready for it.
So they have developed a test to predict future mortality. It is not accurate, just more accurate than guessing.
Seriously, shouldn’t that be “each of us will die someday”?
your risk of death.
100%.
Today. 50/50.
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