Lurking dementia risk exposed by breakthrough test 25 years before symptoms
A new blood test could determine a woman’s dementia risk as early as 25 years before symptoms emerge.That’s according to new research from the University of California San Diego, which found that a specific biomarker protein associated with early pathological processes of Alzheimer’s disease was "strongly linked" to future dementia risk.The researchers analyzed blood samples from 2,766 participants in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study in the late 1990s, according […]
