{"id":11591,"date":"2017-09-09T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11591"},"modified":"2017-09-09T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T01:35:57","slug":"endangering-human-health-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/09\/endangering-human-health-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangering Human Health, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on this <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/15\/endangering-human-health-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a>, Lyme disease is notoriously hard to detect, so this report in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (26 August 2017) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23531402-300-speedy-test-for-lyme-disease-could-help-us-treat-it-in-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcome news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Belisle at Colorado State University and his colleagues wondered whether [Lyme disease and southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI)] could be distinguished by measuring the changes each causes to the abundance of specific metabolites in the blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"zdt_display_placeholder_321654\">\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">They screened 220 blood samples from people diagnosed with Lyme disease or STARI and compared them with healthy samples. An algorithm was trained to detect the differences revealed (<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Science Translational Medicine<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/cbxx\">doi.org\/cbxx<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">).<\/span>When tested on new samples, the algorithm diagnosed Lyme disease and STARI with an accuracy of 85 and 92 per cent, respectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how they correct for the high inaccuracy rate in the tests they presumably use to diagnose Lyme disease. Probably explained in the actual study, but I&#8217;m a little too tired to read that today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on this thread, Lyme disease is notoriously hard to detect, so this report in NewScientist (26 August 2017) is welcome news: John Belisle at Colorado State University and his colleagues wondered whether [Lyme disease and southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI)] could be distinguished by measuring the changes each \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/09\/endangering-human-health-ctd-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}