Diagnostinen menetelmä synnytysajankohdan ennustamiseksi sekä siihen käytettävä reagenssipakkaus

摘要

The invention relates to a diagnostic method for detecting susceptibility to delivery, and to a test kit for this purpose. A low, but higher than baseline level concentration of Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 1 (IGFBP-1), which is due to leakage from decidual cells, is detected by an immunological assay in a vaginal secretion sample.