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Would you really want to know if Alzheimer’s was in your future?

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Would you really want to know?

A new Alzheimer’s study has provided evidence that a bio-marker test can be used to reliably determine an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis much earlier than previously thought.

The fascinating news about this article is that a diagnosis can be made from spinal fluid before many symptoms have appeared.

After a 5 year-follow up, the study predicted 100% of patients with mild cognitive impairment who progressed to full-blown Alzheimer’s.

The test also found that 72% of people with mild cognitive impairment and 36% of cognitively normal adults showed early signs of Alzheimer’s pathology in these spinal fluid tests. This suggests that a diagnosis may be made much earlier than previously thought.

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This brings the Question?

Would you really want to know if Alzheimer’s was in your future?

I’m not totally sure what my answer would be. I think it would be “Yes” …and “No”

I’d like to make a few of the decisions that my Mom was unable to make until it was too late. Yet, the prospect of knowing what’s ahead — that’s a little unnerving.

What would you do? Have the test– or not?

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