A BASIC urine test could spot early Alzheimer’s disease before doctors notice it, a study claims. More than half a million Brits have the illness, making it the top cause of dementia. But it requir…
A BASIC urine test could spot early Alzheimer’s disease before doctors notice it, a study claims.Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease requires complex and costly brain scans meaning people cannot be screened en masse But it requires complex tests and scans to diagnose, meaning people cannot be mass-screened to catch it early.
Experts at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, say a simple pee test could spot brain decline beforeIt works by detecting high levels of formic acid, which they found was a red flag for the brain. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Dr Qihao Guo said the test could sound the alarm during a “golden window”.
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