Parkinsons biomarker discovered

Parkinsons biomarker discovered

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Byker28i

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68,125 posts

224 months

Friday 14th April 2023
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Some good news.

They've developed a new tool that can detect the disease not only of people diagnosed with Parkinson’s, but also in individuals who have not yet been diagnosed or shown clinical symptoms of the disease, but are at a high risk of developing it.

https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/breaking-news-par...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/...

oddman

2,796 posts

259 months

Saturday 15th April 2023
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It's a horrific condition. I was involved in a long term follow up study of a large cohort of patients with Parkinsons to assess the liklihood progession to dementia. (answer - if they live long enough they all get dementia)

Once true disease modifying treatments are available, early detection will be really important.