Blood test 95% accurate in spotting suicide risk in bipolar patients, says Israeli scientist

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/blood-test-95-accurate-in-spotting-suicide-risk-in-bipolar-patients-says-israeli-scientist

A researcher from the University of Haifa says that she has developed a new method to predict a high suicide risk among patients with bipolar disorder through a simple blood test.

Prof. Shani Stern of Haifa’s Sagol Department of Neurobiology, who worked on the study with researchers from Canada and Italy, said the team developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm based on genetic changes in the white blood cells of patients with bipolar disorder.

The groundbreaking study, published in the peer-reviewed Translational Psychiatry, achieved more than 95% accuracy.