Being able to “pre-diagnose” neurodegenerative diseases in patients at risk would offer new perspectives to researchers and open up new avenues for their therapeutic trials. It is therefore on this pre-diagnosis that researchers from the University of Cambridge (Great Britain) have focused. This allowed them to develop a logic and memory test that would detect dementia between 5 and 9 years before diagnosis.
“When we reviewed the history of patients with cognitive impairment, it became clear that they had these disorders for many years before their symptoms became sufficiently evident to trigger a diagnosis,” explained Dr. Nol Swaddiwudhipong, co-author of the study. “It’s important that we can screen those most at risk – for example, people over 50 or those who have high blood pressure or don’t exercise enough – in order to intervene at a later stage. early to help them reduce their risk,” he added. “But also to identify more people suitable for clinical trials for new dementia treatments.”
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