Smartphones allow do-it-yourself stress hormone tests

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Smartphones allow do-it-yourself stress hormone tests

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/smartphones-allow-yourself-stress-hormone-tests-175837904.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Z4T3QFV7_vlsndj.tiutjg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-07-04T175837Z_1_LYNXMPEA630NT_RTROPTP_2_JAPAN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A 20-year-old woman holds her smartphone as she waits for her friends at a train station before a ceremony in Tokyo" align="left" title="A 20-year-old woman holds her smartphone as she waits for her friends at a train station before a ceremony in Tokyo" border="0" /></a>By Lorraine L. Janeczko NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The next addition to the collection of health apps coming online for smartphones may be a stress test, researchers said at a recent conference. With a simple tube, some software and a saliva sample, people and their doctors can measure levels of the stress hormone cortisol, according to new research presented last week at ICE/ENDO 2014, the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and the Endocrine Society in Chicago. &quot;We have designed a method by which anyone with a smartphone will be able to measure their salivary cortisol level quickly, easily and inexpensively,&quot; said lead investigator Dr. Joel Ehrenkranz, director of diabetes and endocrinology at Intermountain Healthcare in Murray, Utah. While a commercial lab in the United States may charge up to $50 to run a quantitative salivary cortisol test and take up to a week to provide the results, the smartphone test will cost under $5 and give results in less than about 10 minutes, Ehrenkranz told Reuters Health in an interview.</p><br clear="all"/>

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