Health & Discoveries: Blood patterns offer clues to Alzheimer’s treatment

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  Blood patterns offer clues to Alzheimer’s treatment

A new study conducted by the researchers at Georgetown University School of Medicine revealed that blood test not only could predict Alzheimer’s disease but could help researchers to develop treatments for halting or slowing the disease before beginning.

The team focused on plasma proteins or lipids and measured the levels of 10 lipids found in the blood.

The result showed 90% accuracy among the group participants during the follow up period, around 2-3 years, announced the study leader Howard Federoff, MD, PhD, executive dean at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

“This discovery is a potentially enormous breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer’s,” said the study researchers.

Last March, the researchers have developed a new blood test  that could predict the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in elderly people.

Alzheimer’s disease plays havoc with the metabolism of brain cells, causing them to stop working and lose connections with each other, and eventually, their death.

This gradual deterioration is what leads to memory failure, difficulty with daily tasks, personality changes, and other features of the brain-wasting disease.

According to the World Health Organization, the number of Alzheimer’s patients worldwide is expected to skyrocket from the 35.6 million individuals who lived with it in 2010 to 115.4 million by 2050.

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