Nuevos retos de los servicios de medicina de laboratorio por el envejecimiento poblacional / New challanges of Laboratory Medicine due to population aging
Populationaging implies impacting consequences for the society and the health system. LaboratoryMedicine as part of it, is affected in its three phases Preanalytical, analytical and postanalytical. This is a serious problem to perform these analysis correctly because of the elderlymultimorbidity so as the difficulty to comply with some requierements for the dignosis due to age ( certain dietary limitations). Undoubtely demographic aging brings about new challanges for the laboratory medical services. The present work shows the effects of this phenomenun for the health system and proposes solutions to mitigate its consquences.