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Use of dried blood spots for monitoring inflammatory and nutritional biomarkers in the elderly

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Objectives Blood microsampling, particularly dried blood spots (DBSs), is an attractive minimally-invasive approach that is well suited for home sampling and predictive medicine associated with longitudinal follow-up of the elderly. However, in vitro diagnostic quantification of biomarkers from DBS poses a major challenge. Clinical mass spectrometry can reliably quantify blood proteins in various research projects. Our goal here was to use mass spectrometry of DBS in a real-world clinical setting and compared it to the standard immunoassay method. We also sought to correlate DBS mass spectrometry measurements with clinical indices. Methods A clinical trial of diagnostic equivalence was conducted to compare conventional venous samples quantified by immunoassay and DBSs quantified by mass spectrometry in an elderly population. We assayed three protein biomarkers of nutritional and inflammatory status: prealbumin (transthyretin), C-reactive protein, and transferrin. Results The analysis of DBSs showed satisfactory variability and low detection limits. Statistical analysis confirmed that the two methods give comparable results at clinical levels of accuracy. In conclusion, we demonstrated, in a real-life setting, that DBSs can be used to measure prealbumin, CRP and transferrin, which are commonly used markers of nutritional status and inflammation in the elderly. However, there was no correlation with patient frailty for these proteins. Conclusions Early detection and regular monitoring of nutritional and inflammatory problems using DBS appear to be clinically feasible. This could help resolve major public health challenges in the elderly for whom frailty leads to serious risks of health complications.
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inserm-04435829 , version 1 (02-02-2024)

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Jérôme Vialaret, Margaux Vignon, Christophe Hirtz, Stéphanie Badiou, Gregory Baptista, et al.. Use of dried blood spots for monitoring inflammatory and nutritional biomarkers in the elderly. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 2023, 62 (5), pp.881-890. ⟨10.1515/cclm-2023-0312⟩. ⟨inserm-04435829⟩
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