Does Suicide Risk Show Up in the Blood?

Does Suicide Risk Show Up in the Blood?

Megan Brooks

May 18, 2022

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Newly identified serum biomarkers have the potential to flag patients, via blood testing, with major depressive disorder (MDD) at high risk of suicide.

Investigators found patients with MDD who died by suicide had a gene expression signature in blood distinct from patients with MDD who died by other means.

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