Do you ever just have a bad day? Like lost your lucky rabbit foot type bad day? Where everything goes wrong and you get a parking ticket after running inside for 5 minutes?Well what if you went to the doctor and had a routine blood test and the results came back positive for premature death? Yeah that would be pretty sucky. But science is getting close to this.
Researchers have found a biomarker called GlycA that is caused by low level inflammation. Long exposure to inflammation increases a risk of death. This inflammation is caused by low levels of microbial infections.
Even though they have found this marker and have determined that it has some effect in premature death they do not know very much about it. They do not have a treatment for it or any preventative actions to take, They also still do not know how long the patient will have to live or rather not to live.
Here is the article:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151022124339.htm
That's pretty interesting knowing that doctors will soon be able to determine premature death. Not necessarily the news that I would want to hear when going to the doctor, but it would be good to know!
ReplyDeleteI guess to me, this just sounds like pseudoscience. How do you classify it as 'premature' death? Was the cause of death the same in all of these individuals and was it something that could be directly related back to that initial microbial inflammation? Because if they die of car wrecks, homicides, suicides, etc... I just don't think that you can claim any type of causation there. Correlation does not always equate to causation.
ReplyDeleteI took immature death to be death caused by a cancer, disease or external factors like car crashes. The article is very vague
DeleteThis is cool, but isn't it also kind of macabre. Even if we fully developed a way to determine premature death, the question is whether someone would even want to know this or not. Very interesting to know that we are closing in on having an option in finding out more about premature death though.
ReplyDeleteSooo, what kind of inflammation are supposed to avoid? Is it avoidable? And what were their observations based on?
ReplyDeleteapparently general inflammation caused by infections.
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