A team of researchers in the United States has come up with a novel blood test that helps detect Alzheimer's disease when it is in an early stage. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia or memory loss in elderly people in the US.
Aging men who lose Y chromosomes from their red blood cells are at an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. These are the finding of a new study conducted by a team of researchers in the Uppsala University in Sweden.
While 47 million people around the world suffer from dementia, it has shot up from 35 million in 2009.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
