If you were offered a simple blood test that could reveal whether or not you would one day get dementia, would you take it?It is a question that millions of us could soon be facing, after researchers at the University of Gothenburg in announced a revolutionary new way of detecting Alzheimer’s disease – the most common cause of dementia in the UK – up to 15 years before symptoms emerge.Reading the research, I was reminded of working at a memory loss clinic in some years ago. There I met a number of patients with suspected Huntington’s disease, which causes degeneration of nerve cells in the brain.
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