Dementia cases to soar,
The Mental Health Foundation reports that: "The number of people with dementia in Northern Ireland is set to double within a generation, the Alzheimer's Research Trust claimed today.
There are currently 16,000 sufferers, but the number is expected to reach 20,500 by 2017 and 47,000 by 2051."
Labels: Alzheimer's riesearch, dementia
Blood test may be able to predict Alzheimer's risk
The
Mental Health Foundation report that "Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a blood test that is a step toward giving people an answer two to six years in advance of the onset of the disease.
The test identifies changes in a handful of proteins in blood plasma that cells use to convey messages to one another. The research team discovered a connection between shifts in the cells' dialog and the changes in the brain accompanying Alzheimer's. They found that the blood test could indicate who had Alzheimer's with 90 percent agreement with clinical diagnoses, and could predict the onset of Alzheimer's two to six years before symptoms appeared."
With all the restrictions on Alzheimer's drugs and its dire prognosis would you want to know?
Labels: Alzheimer's riesearch, test predict Alzheimer's risk
