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  4. You mentioned that occult blood on Doctor’s Data doesn’t seem to be very reliable when you follow up. Have you noticed the same thing on BioHealth 401H?

You mentioned that occult blood on Doctor’s Data doesn’t seem to be very reliable when you follow up. Have you noticed the same thing on BioHealth 401H?

Chris Kresser:  Less so with BioHealth. We don’t get positives for occult blood as often with BioHealth, but I’m trying to think of even one situation where occult blood was positive on Doctor’s Data and then we went ahead and tested. I usually will do in an occult blood just through LabCorp or Quest, and sometimes patients who have even had endoscopies and there’s never—I could be wrong, but the fact that in seven or eight years of solo practice and 10 years of practice overall, I’m having a hard time remembering even one case as illustrative. I still do follow-up because I would hate to miss that one time where it was true, and it was indicative of a more serious problem like cancer, but I don’t find it to be very accurate.

 

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