HOW ACCURATE IS NON INVASIVE PRENATAL TESTING (NIPT TEST)?
By the advancement in the medical field many of the labs provide Non invasive prenatal testing facilities with lab parameters of International standards. As the testing procedure is much more simple & uncomplicated, the rate of accuracy in test results will be more.
Recent studies indicate that NIPT can achieve an aneuploidy detection rate of 99.2% , higher than that obtained with conventional serological tests, and a false positive rate of around 0.09% (95% CI 0.05% to 0.14%) for Down syndrome, as well as high levels of sensitivity (99.3%; 95% CI 98.9% to 99.6%) and specificity (99.9%; 95% CI 99.9% to 100%) for this chromosome anomaly.
Thus non invasive prenatal testing offers a greater accuracy and precision up to 99% helping to take the needful medication and treatment at the right time. Undergoing non invasive prenatal testing in a period of 9 weeks of pregnancy is good to avoid chances of miscarriage.
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