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. 2023 Feb 23;13(3):313. doi: 10.3390/bios13030313

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
  • l-citrulline

  • l-pyroglutamic acid

  • urocanic acid

  • 2-oxoadipic acid

  • cholesterol 3-sulfate

  • pentadecanoic acid

Needs further
exploration
Pre-clinical [70]
Schizophrenia
  • Annexin-5

  • Bleomycin hydrolase

  • Thioredoxin

  • Caspase-14

  • Synaptophysin

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.