Interesting Analysis on Hair

Interesting Analysis on Hair

For laboratory diagnosis, as of date mostly invasive procedures are used to collect biological samples such as blood and other body fluids. Recent research studies have established urine, sweat and saliva based laboratory diagnosis. However, hair analysis based clinical diagnosis is in the infancy. Recently researchers have shown much interest to establish hair as a non-invasive laboratory diagnostic material. Many studies have linked the contents of hair, such as minerals, metabolites, hormones, amino acids and vitamins to the blood levels thereby establishing hair analysis based laboratory diagnosis.

This field has expanded during the last two decades and the outcome of such researches have brought out informations on hair based clinical diagnosis for various common diseases such as DM, CVD, reproductive, metabolic, menopause, thyroid and adrenals. The contents of this review article will through some light for future research to firmly establish human hair as the best non invasive biological sample for the diagnosis of various common disorders.
“Keywords:” Hair, DM, OS, Thyroid, CAD, Menopause