American researchers hope that such an analysis will significantly reduce the time for diagnosis of the disease and, as a result, will make treatment more effective..

Every fifth person is depressed at some point in their life, 8-12% experience an attack at least once a year.. At the same time, there is a small handful of people suffering from clinical depression, which can last for weeks or years, and seriously affect everyday life..

It may take several months for doctors to diagnose clinical depression.. However, scientists from Northwestern University in Chicago say they have identified nine chemicals in their blood levels that are rising due to depression, and have developed a blood test that tests the levels of three of them..

Researchers measured blood levels of chemicals in 32 patients with severe depression and compared them with 32 samples taken from healthy individuals..

In a study published in a scientific journal, lead researcher Eva Redel wrote: “The abundance of nine transcripts (chemicals) differed significantly in subjects with severe depressive disorder and individuals without depression. This suggests that transcript levels can be used in the clinical diagnosis of patients. ”.

Many suffer from mild depression from time to time.. At the same time, the depressed state rarely lasts more than a few days.. In its most severe form, however, it can last for years and depressed people feel they don’t want to live without obvious reasons..

Researchers also found that people’s penchant for depression can be passed on from generation to generation..

People who have depressed ancestors in their families are also more likely to be susceptible to it, writes the online edition of the British online edition Mail Online.

Last year, researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that depression is the second “most popular” cause of hospital disbursement worldwide, only back pain ahead. At the same time, the disease is often ignored by doctors and only some of the patients receive adequate treatment..

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