A new blood test could identify a distinctive hormone pattern found only in people with endometriosis, offering hope for faster diagnosis of a condition that currently takes up to 12 years to detect.

Endometriosis affects around one in 10 women of reproductive age in the UK.

CHICAGO — A noninvasive blood-based test identified cases of endometriosis that were missed by imaging, data at the Endocrine Society annual meeting show.“One of the greatest…