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New Delhi, Sep 29: A breakthrough study by researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet has unveiled a simple blood test that could predict an individual's risk of developing severe liver disease — such as cirrhosis or liver cancer — up to 10 years in advance.

Published in The BMJ, the study introduces a diagnostic model called CORE, which relies on just five factors: a person’s age, sex, and levels of three common liver enzymes — AST, ALT, and GGT — all of which are routinely measured in standard health check-ups.

“These are diseases that are becoming increasingly common and are often diagnosed too late,” said Rickard Strandberg, the researcher who developed the test. “Our method can identify those at risk early on, using simple and accessible too

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