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Routine blood test may offer clues to future dementia risk
A routine blood test measuring hemoglobin may hint at later dementia risk, according to a large Korean study presented at the ECNP Congress in Munich
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394 summaries in the archiveOct 102 minDiagnosis & DetectionRoutine blood test may offer clues to future dementia riskA routine blood test measuring hemoglobin may hint at later dementia risk, according to a large Korean study presented at the ECNP Congress in MunichNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 101 minResearch & DiscoveriesFriends of BrainHealth grants advance dementia prevention and brain health researchFriends of BrainHealth donors have put more than $466,000 into 2026 seedling grants for dementia prevention and brain health research at the Center for BrainHealthNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 92 minGenetics & Risk FactorsSutter Health care model safely expands local Alzheimer's treatmentSutter Health's weekly virtual review board helped community neurologists offer amyloid-targeting Alzheimer's drugs to more patients, with side effects tracked closelyNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 92 minDiagnosis & DetectionEarly-onset Alzheimer's patients accumulate symptoms years before diagnosisPeople diagnosed with Alzheimer's before 65 show a rising mix of health problems and healthcare visits in the years before diagnosis, but not the usual heart risk factorsNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 72 minResearch & DiscoveriesNew modeling reveals high societal value of early Alzheimer's careModeling from USC's Schaeffer Center suggests donanemab could add substantial lifetime value for patients and society, and that starting treatment two years earlier would raise that value by about a thirdNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 72 minDiagnosis & DetectionStudy finds β-synuclein as early blood-based biomarker of Alzheimer's in Down syndrome patientsA blood protein linked to synapses rises in people with Down syndrome years before symptoms, earlier than other Alzheimer's blood markers studiedNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 72 minResearch & DiscoveriesCould speech offer a window into aging?A speech-based aging clock built from nearly 3,000 Spanish speakers tracked dementia, cognition, social adversity and biological aging in a low-cost way.News Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 61 minDiagnosis & DetectionOverweight dementia patients likely to live longer than normal weight peersColumbia and NYU researchers find that people who are overweight or obese when dementia is diagnosed tend to survive longer than those at normal weightNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 61 minResearch & DiscoveriesSocial media and AI chatbots face gaps in supporting vulnerable usersResearchers say social media platforms' safety messaging is often vague and unverifiable, raising accountability questions for families and policymakersNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News FeedOct 51 minGenetics & Risk FactorsExisting drug could target neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's patientsUniversity of Birmingham researchers blocked the P2X7 receptor in live human brain tissue and sharply cut the inflammatory signalling linked to Alzheimer'sNews Medical Alzheimers Disease News Feed
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