- About 32 million people globally have Alzheimer’s disease.
- There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s, however, some medications are available to treat symptoms and help slow disease progression.
- Researchers from Amsterdam University Medical Centers and Maastricht University have identified five biological variants directly related to Alzheimer’s disease.
- Scientists believe these findings may impact how future Alzheimer’s treatments are developed and prescribed.
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There is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, and researchers are still not completely sure what
Now, researchers from Amsterdam University Medical Centers and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have identified five biological variants directly related to Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientists believe these findings — recently published in the journal
Although researchers do not know the exact cause behind Alzheimer’s disease, most agree the formation of
Dr. Betty Tijms, associate professor of neurology, brain imaging, and neurodegeneration at Amsterdam University Medical Centers and lead author of this study, told Medical News Today that she and her team decided to look for biological processes other than beta-amyloid and tau that may affect Alzheimer’s disease.
They did that because genetic and tissue proteomic studies previously pointed out that other biological processes beyond amyloid and tau seem to be involved in Alzheimer’s disease.
“But this was difficult to study in patients because the brain is not easily accessible,” Dr. Tijms…
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