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Eye Exam May Predict Alzheimer’s

Web Desk(August 24, 2018): Development in technology can help doctors verify the symptoms of Alzheimer, researchers said.

Using equipment similar to the kind already available at most eye doctors’ offices, researchers detected signs of Alzheimer’s in a small sample of 30 people, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Opthalmology. Those enrolled in the study—all in their mid-70s with no outward symptoms of Alzheimer’s—underwent PET scans or sampling of spinal fluid.

About half came back with elevated levels of the Alzheimer’s proteins amyloid or tau, suggesting they would eventually develop dementia.

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