{"id":1910,"date":"2014-06-10T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2014-06-11T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:36:20","slug":"blood-test-could-detect-osteoarthritis-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/blood-test-could-detect-osteoarthritis-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood test could detect osteoarthritis earlier<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1880\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/osteoarthritis_C-Noel-Henley-MD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1880\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/osteoarthritis_C-Noel-Henley-MD.jpg\" alt=\"Swelling and deformity of the end joint of the finger: this is the most common place for osteoarthritis in the hand. Now, a new blood test could help doctors diagnose osteoarthritis earlier. (Photo credit: C. Noel Henley, MD via flickr)\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/osteoarthritis_C-Noel-Henley-MD.jpg 427w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/osteoarthritis_C-Noel-Henley-MD-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swelling and deformity of the end joint of the finger: this is the most common place for osteoarthritis in the hand. Now, a new blood test could help doctors diagnose osteoarthritis earlier. (Photo credit: C. Noel Henley, MD via <a>flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new blood test could help doctors diagnose osteoarthritis in its earlier stages. Blood tests based on antibodies already exist for rheumatoid arthritis, however diagnosis of osteoarthritis relies on expensive equipment like MRI scanning machines, and even then it often can\u2019t be detected until it is relatively advanced. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the new study, researchers used a computer-based approach known as \u2018machine learning\u2019 to identify a set of inflammatory proteins in blood that together act as an early-stage biomarker for osteoarthritis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/11\/97\/20140428.abstract?sid=fa0b2bb6-a7ce-4223-92f6-cfd685b35663\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Journal of the Royal Society Interface<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 10, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.ucalgary.ca\/r_krawetz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Krawetz<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Calgary, Alberta<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new blood test could help doctors diagnose osteoarthritis in its earlier stages. Blood tests based on antibodies already exist for rheumatoid arthritis, however diagnosis of osteoarthritis relies on expensive equipment like MRI scanning machines, and even then it often can\u2019t be detected until it is relatively advanced. In the new study, researchers used a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,113,1739,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-biology","tag-diagnostics","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/osteoarthritis_C-Noel-Henley-MD.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}