Blood clots, often unexposed until they break away and result in a stroke or heart attack, can form for a number of reasons in anyone. But now, researchers from MIT have developed a simple urine test that uses nanoparticles to detect thrombin, a major blood-clotting element.
The researchers, who published the details of their system in the journal ACS Nano, hope this test could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots.
Though we often associate blood clots with elderly patients, anyone who sits on a plane for prolonged periods of time, lies in a bed while recovering from surgery, or who takes certain medications can be at risk.
In 2012, Medical News Today reported that contraceptives containing Drospirenone have a higher blood clot risk, for example.
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