Biography:
Maria Edvardsson, Reg BLS, Ph.D, researcher at the Medical Faculty Linkoping University, Sweden. Her thesis deals about the diffculties in interpreting results os laboratory analysis for elderly individuals. The research has continued further by studying platelets in patients with type 2 diabetes or dementia. In the addition to her clinial work in the laboratory area, she also work as a research coordinator in primary health care in Ostergotland, Sweden.
Title : Classification of 80-year-old individuals into healthy moderately healthy and frail based on different frailty scores affects the interpretation of laboratory results
Title : Challenges to interpret outcome from clinical laboratory analytes, in >80-year-old, apparently healthy, moderately healthy, and frail individuals