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Can crest disease be diagnosed solely based on blood work with no symptoms?

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I say no: There is no reason to draw labs without symptoms. Healthy people can have anti-centromere especially at low titer. No one knows the prevalence of high titer antibodies in healthy people as we don't test these folks.

Dr Altman and another doctor agreed

Answered 12/30/2015

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