Blood test flags dementia risk in women decades before symptoms
TL;DR
A UCSD-led study of 2,766 women in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study found that higher plasma levels of the brain protein p-tau217 predict future dementia risk in women aged 65–79 up to 25 years before symptoms, with risk variations linked to hormone therapy use and genetic factors.
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