WIKIMEDIA, ADAMANTIOSA suite of studies presented at the ongoing Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Copenhagen offers a variety of ways to diagnose the neurodegenerative disease at early stages. In some cases, researchers worked out the chances of developing the disease among people who can’t smell certain odors, and in other studies scientists tested the utility of Alzheimer’s biomarkers in the eye.
“We envision a future where we can predict risk and then do things to lower risk,” Matthew Growdon, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health who is working on a such a smell test, told the Washington Post.
Alzheimer’s sniff tests have been proposed before. The idea is that a poorer performance for odor detection could predict cognitive decline. “A loss of sense of smell does not mean you have Alzheimer's disease,” Kenneth Heilman, a professor in the department of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, told HealthDay. “But if someone has episodic memory loss and also has a loss of smell, a degenerative disease like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s is a possibility.”
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