“I would say it’s premature,” says the professor.

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It is worth remembering that it is a degenerative brain disease that causes memory loss, which can lead to death.

for every Rafael Belmont

05/25/2022 – 11:21 AM Brazil time

05/25/2022 – 11:21 AM Brazil time

The Alzheimer’s diseaseAs everyone knows, a very cruel and painful disease. In the first weeks of diagnosis, family members suffer a lot and take a long time to adapt. The patient, if he has a higher degree, forgets even simple things, such as the name, the year we spent and the number of children/grandchildren. So you need to be calm and patient.

It is a degenerative disease of the brain that causes memory loss and in some cases can lead to death. Dealing with a person in these circumstances is very sensitive, so we must follow simple rules. Since it is an incurable disease, progress in diagnosing it is necessary to try to delay it.

Vicente Forlenzateacher in FM Department of Psychiatry (Faculty of Medicine) as well IPq (Institute of Psychiatry) in Clinical HospitalWhoever USPwhich he sought USP Journal on the Air 1st Edition and talked about it. Recently, a new blood test has been created that works in such a way that it recognizes biomarkers associated with the disease.

According to the specialist, this new test “represents the possibility, through a blood test, to detect some elements of Alzheimer’s disease, which indicates the presence of the disease-causing process.” ForlinzaFinally, he warns: “It is all still unknown. I would say it is too early to think that it is a test that has solved our problems.”.