New Blood Test Detects Alzheimer’s With Over 90% Accuracy

New Blood Test Detects Alzheimer’s With Over 90% Accuracy

A study involving over 1,700 participants from five hospitals across Barcelona, Sweden, and Italy has confirmed the effectiveness of a blood-based biomarker for detecting Alzheimer’s disease in clinical practice. The detection of Alzheimer’s disease through a simple blood test is now a scientific reality. A recent study led by researchers from the Hospital del Mar [...]

The Reina Sofía Foundation launches the campaign “Extraordinary Brains” with the aim of encouraging people to donate brains for scientific research and highlighting that anyone, without being a genius, can contribute to the progress of science. This campaign is born as part of its commitment to research into neurodegenerative diseases and underlines the importance of brain tissue donation to continue to advance in the detection and prevention of…

© Orawan / Adobe Stock New blood test detects Alzheimer's in the early stages – with high accuracy thanks to Biomarker Phospho-tau217.

ARUP Laboratories Launches PTau 217 Blood Test To Detect Alzheimer's Disease Pathology - Medical Device News Magazine

As this biomarker can be detected in blood, this test is a minimally invasive and broadly accessible diagnostic tool that may facilitate earlier detection of AD.