A blood test to prevent premature births

Usually, to understand if a pregnant woman is at risk of premature birth, fetal fibronectin is performed, which however is a test not suitable for all women and above all not very accurate.

Now we discover, thanks to the journal "Plos One", that at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto a new, more effective and reliable blood test has been developed, as it takes into account six genes and other clinical data. plasma.

In this way it would really be possible to understand, within 48 hours, if a woman is really going to give birth ahead of time. Will it also arrive in Italy? We hope so.