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AI blood test can predict Parkinson's disease 7 years before symptoms
- andsoitis 1y agoThere’s no cure for Parkinson’s and treatments target symptoms.
- karlperera 1y agoThat's true but do you think there will be in the near future? What kinds of treatments might be possible?
- karlperera 1y agoHi HN, I came across this new research from University College London and Goettingen University that seems like a significant step in predictive medicine. They've developed an AI model that analyzes a panel of eight key proteins in a person's blood. In their study, the model was able to identify patients who would go on to develop Parkinson's disease with 100% accuracy, up to seven years before any motor symptoms appeared. The "100% accuracy" claim is obviously a very bold one and will need to be tested to verify this. The use of a simple blood test could be a game-changer for clinical trials and, eventually, early treatment. let me ask this: what do we do when we still cannot cure Parkinson's but can predict it?
- jfengel 1y agoThank you for that. My father just died of Parkinson's. (Or at least, with it, but it was causing more and more serious issues.) I've probably got a decade before I would show any symptoms at all. Meantime, I've been doing my best to be generically active and healthy -- I still run marathons, eat reasonably well, moderate alcohol, no smoking, etc. (Dad didn't smoke, either -- though there are rumors that nicotine might actually help.) So this test would probably become commercially available right about the time I'd start taking it.
- karlperera 1y agoSorry to hear that I really am. We all have to whatever we can right?