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Blood Test Shows Statistically Significant Association With Alzheimers Disease (AD), May Predict Conversion Of Mild Cognitive Impairment To AD

Posted by admin on Julio 17th, 2009 under alzheimers Tags: , ,  •  No Comments

Dr. Zsuzsanna Nagy of the University of Birmingham presented data from a clinical study, funded by Cytox Limited, demonstrating that a simple bloodbased biomarker discriminated between patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and control subjects. The findings were statistically highly significant, and the test discriminated between the two groups with 80% sensitivity and 80% specificity. The [...]