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2. Noninvasive prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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   Aneuploidies is when a fetus retains an abnormal amount of haploid cells from their parents. However, both of these approaches have a high rate of false positive results of 2–7%. [9] If these tests indicate an increased risk of aneuploidy, then invasive diagnostic testing is used, such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.

3. Noninvasive glucose monitor - Wikipedia

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   Noninvasive glucose monitoring (NIGM), called Noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring when used as a CGM technique, is the measurement of blood glucose levels, required by people with diabetes to prevent both chronic and acute complications from the disease, without drawing blood, puncturing the skin, or causing pain or trauma.

4. Prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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   There are three purposes of prenatal diagnosis: (1) to enable timely medical or surgical treatment of a condition before or after birth, (2) to give the parents the chance to abort a fetus with the diagnosed condition, and (3) to give parents the chance to prepare psychologically, socially, financially, and medically for a baby with a health problem or disability, or for the likelihood of a ...

5. Ask a doctor: Is it possible to reverse my diabetes? - AOL

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   There is no cure for diabetes, but it is reversible in some cases. Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which blood sugar levels are too high. Its root cause is a problem with insulin, a hormone ...

6. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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   The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

7. Cure for type-1 diabetes closer to reality through advances ...

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   Studies with monkeys show that injecting high-insulin-producing forms of these cells into the animals can “cure” type-1 diabetes for about six months. Human trials are underway.