Blood Sample Analysis Using Raman Spectroscopy, Statistical Modeling Sufficient To Diagnose Fibromyalgia, Research Suggests

Healio (3/28, Cooper) reports, “A blood sample analysis using Raman spectroscopy, combined with statistical modeling, was sufficient to diagnose fibromyalgia, according to data.” The researchers found that “surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with gold particles, coupled with chemometrics, discriminated fibromyalgia from other rheumatic disorders with 100% diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, indicating the method ‘can be used as a real-time point-of-care device for screening of fibromyalgia.’” The findings were published in Biomedicines.