Dementia could be detected nine years earlier. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have shown that it is possible to identify indicators of brain impairment in individuals up to nine years before they are given a dementia-related disease diagnosis. The researchers examined data from the
The study found that cognitive changes could appear years before diagnoses of neurodegenerative diseases.have shown that it is possible to identify indicators of brain impairment in individuals up to nine years before they are given a dementia-related disease diagnosis.
Until now, it has been unclear whether it might be possible to detect changes in brain function before the onset of symptoms. To help answer this question, researchers at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust turned to UK Biobank, a biomedical database and research resource containing anonymized genetic, lifestyle, and health information from half a million UK participants aged 40-69.
People who went on to develop Alzheimer’s were more likely than healthy adults to have had a fall in the previous 12 months. Those patients who went on to develop a rare neurological condition known as progressive supranuclear palsy , which affects balance, were more than twice as likely as healthy individuals to have had a fall.
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