BLOOD-BASED SCREENING FOR DETECTING NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE IN PRIMARY CARE SETTINGS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and kits for the diagnosing neurological disease within primary care settings.SOLUTION: A method comprises steps of; obtaining a blood test sample from a subject; measuring IL-7 and TNFα biomarkers in the blood sample; comparing a level of one or a combination of the biomarkers and neurocognitive screening tests with a level of a corresponding one or combination of the biomarkers in a normal blood sample and neurocognitive screening tests; and predicting that an increase in the level in the blood test sample in relation to the normal blood sample indicates that the subject is likely to have a neurological disease.SELECTED DRAWING: None