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Predictive blood test for Alzheimer's/cognitive impairment

This might be of interest to those of us who tend to forget why we walked into the next room (my goto explanation is that the cat is using mind control on me again). They claim that it predicts the disease in the preclinical stages by 2-3 prior to onset - when therapies might be more beneficial.

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A panel of 10 lipids was discovered, which researchers say appears to reveal the breakdown of neural cell membranes in participants who develop symptoms of cognitive impairment or AD. The panel was subsequently validated using the remaining 21 aMCI/AD participants (including 10 converters), and 20 controls. Blinded data were analyzed to determine if the subjects could be characterized into the correct diagnostic categories based solely on the 10 lipids identified in the discovery phase.

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[Mar 10, 2014 2:27:54 AM]

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Re: Predictive blood test for Alzheimer's/cognitive impairment

This was the CBS evening news last night. Apparently, though the test seems to be accurate, they did have 2 false positives so they need to tweak the test to try to eliminate those. You don't want to scare the cr@p out of someone for no reason.

They also said the test needs to be replicated by other labs and with a larger sample size.

Even so, there is a huge need for this so expect all of this to be fast tracked.

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[Mar 11, 2014 4:46:19 PM]

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Re: Predictive blood test for Alzheimer's/cognitive impairment

Flash news in usa today, widely used anxiety and insomnia drugs indicted with a 51 percent greater chance of developing alzheimer.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/201...n-anxiety-sleep/15383315/

[Sep 10, 2014 5:39:57 PM]

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