{"id":540553,"date":"2025-01-14T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=540553"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:01:10","slug":"no-needle-blood-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/no-needle-blood-test\/","title":{"rendered":"No-needle blood test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women in the US can now test their blood sugar levels without having to draw blood with a needle. In January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized sales of the Q-Pad Test, a kit that can be used to collect menstrual blood and store it on a small strip that is then sent by mail for analysis. The result arrives within 5 to 10 days. Dr. Sara Naseri had the idea for the test during her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, and it is produced by Qvin, a company she cofounded. In the trials that led to FDA approval, venous and menstrual blood showed similar levels of certain biomarkers and glycated hemoglobin, an indicator of diabetes (<em>Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine<\/em>, 2019; <em>BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health,<\/em> 2022;<em> ScienceNews<\/em>, April 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just for women: new needle-free blood sugar test","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[247,232],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-540553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-medicine","tag-pharmacology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540554,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540553\/revisions\/540554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=540553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}