Experimental blood test detects multiple dementia types with 92% accuracy
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Michael Howerton
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Summary
Researchers have developed an experimental blood test that measures 15 proteins to help diagnose four major neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. The test can detect if a person has more than one of these conditions with 92.3% accuracy, addressing the challenge of overlapping brain diseases that are difficult to distinguish, especially in early stages.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWhen something goes wrong in the brain of people with dementia, often it's more than one thing.
The test measures the levels of 15 proteins in the blood to help diagnose four major neurodegenerative diseases — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies.
And it can determine if a person has more than one of those diseases with 92.3 percent accuracy.
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