Urine Test Could Distinguish Between BP & Depression

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A Urine Test Could Distinguish Between Bipolar Disorder And Depression
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/urine-t ... depression

"The authors note that some of these biomarkers have been investigated before, but individually did not provide a sufficiently reliable method for diagnosis. However, senior author Dr. Peng Xie proposed that multiple markers in combination might succeed where each had failed.

An initial trial on the test set identified 76% of those with MDD and 79% of those with bipolar, falling short of what would be required clinically. However, when the results were reanalyzed, six metabolites stood out.

After normalizing these six metabolites to creatinine concentration in urine, the authors found they could achieve 90% reliability in distinguishing between the two conditions."