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Washington: Researchers have developed a blood test to determine a person's risk of developing anxiety, the severity of their current anxiety, which therapies would likely treat their anxiety the best. The study results were recently published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine tested, based on biomarkers strongly associated with the mood disorder, which can also predict if a person is likely to get more anxious in the future and how other things, like changes in hormones, might affect their anxiety.
This recent study made use of techniques that members of the team developed in earlier research, leading to the creation of blood tests for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, and pain.
Testing blood samples is a convenient, objective way to learn about what's going on in our bodies and brains, according to the study.
The test measures quantities of a protein, enzyme, hormone, or some other molecule strongly associated with a condition.
