We May Have Been Wrong About Fasting Before Blood Tests, Study Reveals
A study of over 9.7 million test results from more than 101,000 patients at a Seoul hospital found that fasting duration affected only 10 of 121 blood test analytes. Most routine tests showed minimal differences between fasting and non-fasting patients, suggesting current broad fasting requirements may be unnecessary for many tests.
Source: We May Have Been Wrong About Fasting Before Blood Tests, Study Reveals — ScienceAlert
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