The study combines state-of-the-art blood tests to detect biomarkers, which detect tiny proteins in blood, and can show early signs of Alzheimer’s. AI is then used to pull the results together.<\/p>\n
Kathryn and her husband Michael have welcomed the study.<\/p>\n
She first realised something was wrong when she became confused while driving to a friend’s house, a journey she had made many times.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t remember how to get to Cardiff, they lived in Peterston-super-Ely, and I couldn’t remember how to get there,” she said.<\/p>\n
On another occasion, Kathryn got lost on the way to meet her brother in Cardiff Bay and had to call Michael for help.<\/p>\n
“She rang up and said I’m lost I don’t know where I am, it was then we went to see our local GP,” said Michael. <\/p>\n
“We went through cognitive tests, and then every sort of test known to mankind, CT scans, MRI scans, a PET scan, which I had never heard about before.<\/p>\n
“Everything came back inconclusive, and this was over a two-and-a-half year period.”<\/p>\n
After having a lumbar puncture test, which involved taking fluid out of her spinal cord, Kathryn was eventually given a dementia diagnosis, which Michael described as a bittersweet experience. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the study said that while a lumbar puncture is an effective way to aid accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, blood biomarker testing was a less invasive procedure, which may have enabled Kathryn to be diagnosed sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study combines state-of-the-art blood tests to detect biomarkers, which detect tiny proteins in blood, and can show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-204006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}