Table 1.
Clinical uses and potential sweat biomarkers of chronic disease.
Chronic Disease |
Sweat Biomarkers |
Characteristics | Applications | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cystic fibrosis | Cl− | ≥60 mM | Gold standard in clinical |
[30] |
Behcet’s disease |
|
Needs further exploration |
Pre-clinical | [70] |
Schizophrenia |
|
Needs further exploration |
Pre-clinical | [72] |
Epilepsy | Menthone | A newly described human alarm pheromone | Pre-clinical | [73] |
Diabetes | Glucose | [G]s/[G]b 1 ≈ 0.01 | Pre-clinical | [51,61] |
Diabetic ketoacidosis |
β-hydroxybutyrate | Needs further exploration |
Pre-clinical | [68] |
1 [Glucose]ssweat/[Glucose]blood.