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According to Belgian researchers, Alzheimer's could be predicted in patients by measuring certain proteins in spinal fluid. This disease could be detected in early stages in healthy people as well.

Two proteins amyloid and tau—which are related to plaque and tangles associated with Alzheimer's—are 90% accurate to determining the risk of Alzheimer's. This study was able to detect 100% of people that had some form of memory impairment who may have Alzheimer's within 5 years.

"The unexpected presence of the Alzheimer's disease signature in more than one-third of cognitively normal subjects suggests that Alzheimer's disease pathology is active and detectable earlier than has heretofore been envisioned," Geert De Meyer of Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues wrote.

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