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The Liquid Health Check: How Proteomics Can Transform Health
By: Peter Ganz, M.D. and Stephen A. Williams, M.D., Ph.D
What if a single blood test based on measuring thousands of proteins could provide an accurate portrait of a person’s current health & future disease risks?
A blood test is an important step toward making almost any medical diagnosis. This is true whether there is concern that a patient may have diabetes, kidney disease, heart failure or many other conditions.
Most of the time, these blood tests deliver a single piece of information. They provide one clue about a potential health risk. Additional blood tests and specialized tests, such as ultrasound, X-rays or stress testing, are needed to get to the working diagnosis.
What if instead of needing different blood tests for each suspected health issue, health care providers could use one blood test to deliver a hundred or more different predictors for a large number of common diseases? In other words, what if a single blood test based on measuring thousands of proteins could provide an accurate, detailed portrait of a person’s current health and future disease risks?
That was the question that the authors of a recent Nature Medicine article 1, co-led by Drs. Stephen Williams (SomaLogic, Inc.), Peter Ganz (University of California, San…
