blood test for Alzheimer's disease


	blood test for Alzheimer's disease

tgkuo

12-11-2007 7:22 AM

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Promising test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease by blood sample.

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			The online edition of the British journal Nature Medicine has a study of a <A href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7177530?nclick_check=1">blood test for Alzheimer's disease</A>, developed at Stanford. The test lights up if 18 specific molecules are present in a blood sample. Using samples of stored blood, the test proved 90% accurate in identifying people who had been diagnosed with the disease by other methods. It was also 87% accurate in distinguishing samples from people who do not have Alzheimer's but exhibit some other form of dementia. The numbers of samples involved were small — SFGate's writeup <A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/BA4VSP4S8.DTL&tsp=1">has some details</A>. The Mercury News's article says the test's developers want to begin selling it to laboratories in 2008, for which FDA approval would not be required. They hope to get FDA approval for general use by 2009.
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