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What can we really learn from home blood testing kits?

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What Kind of Tests Do They Offer?

Tests range from something like maybe 30 pounds for a basic sort of cholesterol test to many hundreds of pounds when you move on to the more complex things like genetic tests for cancer risk. You can test for vitamin deficiencies or thyroid hormones, cholesterol, diabetes, fertility, testosterone. When it comes to results you might just get sort of a dashboard that tells you where your result falls within a range. And under what circumstances you should seek further medical help others don't offer any follow-up care so one said we recommend you contact your GP for a full interpretation of your results.

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