Re:Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%...
by ahazred8ta on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @01:26PM
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[testing positive for the disease but it's not progressing] -- Yes, exactly this. There are people with two copies of the bad APOE4 gene. 95% of them develop early-onset Alzheimer's in their 50s. The medical community is now very intensely studying the remaining 5% to find out what's causing them to NOT get sick.
Re:Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%...
by RiverStone on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:33PM
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Can you provide the source for the 95% figure?
Re:Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%...
by ahazred8ta on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:08PM
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Sloppy wording. -- Fortea (2024) -- Over 95% of people with two copies have amyloid beta in their cerebrospinal fluid. (not full-blown Alzheimers symptoms, just early detection)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/scie...
The other slightly sad fact is that is also quite likely that any curative treatment will need to be started before you start to show symptoms, because the brain has already lost a lot of it's resilience by then.