A study in the Lancet looked at whether a blood test could indicate the most common form of dementia and diagnose people decades before symptoms are clear enough to be identified by medics

Slower processing speed, executive function may be earliest signals of waning cognition

A study in the Lancet looked at whether a blood test could indicate the most common form of dementia and diagnose people decades before symptoms are clear enough to be identified…

La presencia de ciertos marcadores multiplica el riesgo de sufrir problemas de memoria y rapidez mental en personas de mediana edad, según un estudio en ‘The Lancet’. El campo…

The findings show that Alzheimer’s may be present in midlife and already linked to cognitive differences, researchers said.

A simple blood test may be able to spot signs of Alzheimer’s disease long before someone shows symptoms, a new study has revealed

More than 520,000 Britons have Alzheimer's - the most common form of dementia, which is the leading cause of death in UK.

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