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In 2,349 dementia-free older adults in China, the highest quarter of estimated body fat had about half the rate of Alzheimer's-type MCI over about 2 years. The link is observational and not …
Read articleA 2026 PROTECT study involving 174 older adults found that self-administered fingerprick p-tau217 correlated with episodic memory (r = 0.299, p < 0.001) and GFAP correlated with working memo…
Read articleA preprint in 84 older adults with epilepsy found that abnormal Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers were common, but the biomarker categories did not line up neatly with cognitive impairmen…
Read articleA 2026 ADNI/A4 validation study found that Alzheimer’s plasma-biomarker machine-learning models still ranked amyloid PET status well across cohorts, but the practical rule-out number moved h…
Read articleUntil recently, Alzheimer’s pathology could only be confirmed in living patients via PET imaging or lumbar puncture. Plasma p-tau217 changed that calculus — but how to interpret a positive r…
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