The test designed to determine the vital indicators associated with infants and young children is now available to the public in most states.
Linusbio, a start-up company based in New Jersey, launched the test on Thursday, called Clearsland-SAD, which says it can help doctors exclude Autism in children From 1 to 36 months. The test requires just a strand of hair.
The test cannot diagnose autism spectrum disorder, nor is it designed to use it on its own. Instead, doctors are supposed to help exclude autism in children with higher possibilities. It can be because the child has a brother with autism or showed behaviors associated with turmoil.
Clearstrand-ISD is the only biochemical test available to detect autism spectrum disorder in children under the age of 18 months. He hopes to make autism exclusion more efficient and reduce waiting for those who need intervention or treatment.
“The focus is on early intervention,” said Aroura. “The more early you interfere, the better the children.”
The test uses children’s hair strands to analyze its white history, which tells the story of the materials or toxins they were exposed to or treated over time, I told Arora previously NBC News. Select his research patterns from An imbalance in metal exposure or metabolism Some evidence indicates that it can be linked to autism. Hair can provide a kind of timeline of what is going on in the child’s body, including mineral exposure patterns, during specific development stages.
“We can discover the rhythm of clear autism with about 1 centimeter of hair,” I told Aror previously NBC News, comparing dynamic the way the tree rings could tell the story of what the environment was at a certain time in its growth.
The Food and Drug Administration did not agree to the Clearstrand-ISD test. But from Thursday, consumers are available in 44 states – if they are able to pay the cost of $ 2750. (It is not yet eligible to obtain insurance coverage.) The test can be requested by the primary care provider or directly through Linusbio, who puts a date with a remote with an independent doctor who provides him, says Arra.
“I came to us, you get a prescription from an independent doctor. We send you the group. I got the result within about three weeks.”
Diagnostic aid is still early in its development, and data that support its effectiveness is limited. At the Human metabolism and health conference in Ventura, California, on Thursday, Linusbio participated in some new initial results. The company said in a group of 490 children in California, which suffers from a high risk of autism spectrum disorder, enabling the test to exclude it with a precision of about 92.5 %. However, the results have not been published in the corporate review magazine.
Study 2022 for the company’s methodologyIt was published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, a different Linusbio test analysis is still under development and found that the expected methodology accurately diagnosing autism – positives and negatives – about 81 % of time.
The test is one of the many promising ideas that researchers follow as ways to identify or exclude autism early in the child’s life. Other scientists are looking to track the eye, test blood and sound analysis as possible ways.
Clearstrand-ISD works by playing a laser along the tested hair, which turns hair into plasma that can be treated with machine learning algorithms. The results of the full analysis are expected within three weeks, after which the child’s parents join a distance to follow up remotely.
External experts said that the Linoosio hair strand test showed a promise, but it needs more research.
“For me, this seems to be on the previous side of things, not the closest thing. Stephen Xinvv, professor of pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine at Missouri and Thomson Center for Autism and Neurological Development said” They have some convincing results. “This seems like an approach that has the ability to It is part of a group of ways in which we can examine children to get fears, but for me, in the stage of need to have more evidence. “
Shenkopf suggested that families with young children who are concerned about autism closely with pediatricians or primary care doctors who carefully monitor and examine children for autism.
“Sometimes we see the new bright tool – we want to skip the things already available,” he said.
Shenkopf also pointed out that parents who have evidence of the differences in the development of their child It can seek federal attempts without an official diagnosis.
The search for a child’s autism diagnosis can take a long time. American Academy of Pediatrics Autism offers are recommended in 18 months and 24 months. Neurological examinations, language evaluation, behavior notes and other methods are ultimately used to diagnose the child.
Aroura said he hopes that by helping to exclude autism to some children, his company test may give priority to those who need waiting times for families looking for care or treatment.
Rebecca Landa, Executive Director of the Autism Services Center, Science and Innovation at the Kennedy Crager Institute, a pediatric care center in Baltimore, which focuses on development disabilities, said there is a shortage of specialists in autism and assistance diagnosis. So you hope the test will make children flow to specialists more efficient.
This can accelerate the rate of children’s vision. In this way, children with a possibility of a decrease in autism do not sit in the pipeline pending seeing a specific type of specialist. “
This article was originally published on NBCNEWS.com
