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Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s

nytimes.com

25 pointsrpledge3 comments

An article that begins with "Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate"

does not shine a light too bright on the its author's head.

And it continues

  in identifying patients with significant memory loss who
  are on their way to developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Yeah, well, I don't think that's very exciting. Seems a bit on the late side; I'd rather know far beforehand, so I can take every possible precaution.

"about a third of people with normal memories [who were tested] had spinal fluid indicating Alzheimer’s. Researchers suspect that those people will develop memory problems."

Give it time - this may well be able to tell you beforehand, but we don't know because the study isn't old enough yet.

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