A blood test that accurately detects when someone has not slept for 24 hours has been developed by experts at Monash University and the University of Birmingham. The test uses a combination of markers found in the blood of healthy volunteers to predict sleep deprivation. With a 99.2 percent accuracy rate, the test may help identify sleep deprived drivers and reduce road accidents caused by sleep deprivation.
A blood test that can accurately detect when someone has not slept for 24 hours has been developed by experts at Monash University , in Australia, and the University of Birmingham, in the UK. The biomarker used a combination of markers found in the blood of healthy volunteers. Together, these markers accurately predicted when the study volunteers had been awake for more than 24 hours under controlled laboratory conditions.
The biomarker detected whether individuals had been awake for 24 hours with a 99.2 percent probability of being correct, when compared to their own well-rested sample. When a single sample was considered without the well-rested comparison (similar to a diagnostic blood test), it dropped to 89.1 per cent, which was still very high. With about 20 per cent of road accidents worldwide caused by sleep deprivation, researchers hope the discovery may inform future tests to quickly and simply identify sleep deprived drivers
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