New Urine Test Could Diagnose Eye Disease, Duke University Study

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You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye disease. But a new Duke University study says it can link what is in a patient’s urine to gene mutations that cause retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, an inherited, degenerative disease that results in severe vision impairment and often blindness. The findings appear online in the Journal of Lipid Research.

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