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A Simple Blood Test for People with a Certain Sleep Disorder May Help Predict The Development of Development of Dementia Years Befors Symptoms Occur, According to a new study.
Idiopathic Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder (IRBD) causes people to physically act out their dreams while sleeping. The disorder is also associated with a very high risk of parkinson's disease and a related condition called Called Dementia with Lewy Bodies. This is a form of dementia that often causes memory and cognitive loss, as well as vivid visual hallucinations and movements Difacity to Parkinson's's.
McGill University Researchers have discovered that a blood test, Originally developed to detect alzheimer's disease, even who also Identtify behich patients with the irbd SLEPID SELEP DISORDER AREP DISOREP to develop dementia with lewy bodies. The blood test analyzes two proteins in the blood that serve as biomarkers for alzheimer's.
“Detecting Detecting Dementia Risk Early Cold Have Significant Implications for How Doctors Guide Patients, Helping Them Plan for the future and potentially also allowing for more percenalized,” SAIDECTIOTION Postma, a professor in McGill's Department of Neurology and a Clinical Researcher at the Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital).
Researchers Followed 150 IRBD Patients, Testing their blood for the biomarkers and tracking their health annual. Remarkably, the blood test, taken four years before, predicted dentia in almost 90 per cent of the patients who laater developed the disease.
This study also sugges the early stages of parkinson's and alzheimer's have more in common than earlier thoughts.
“Our Findings Sugged that Alzheimer's Treatments could also be tested in patients with this sleep disorder. Perhaps, if treatments start early enours, Dementia with Laywy Bodies Cain Beeid,” SAIDE First Author Dr Aline delva, who was a research fellow at the neuro during the study.
The research team plans to expand the study to confirm how well
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