Early Detection of Lewy Body Disease

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/early-detection-of-lewy-body-disease/

Prevention of age-related disease is in principle a good deal easier than effecting a cure. This is why it is important to develop methods of early detection of disease, identifying people who are at risk well prior to the onset of symptoms. This is particularly so in the case of neurodegenerative conditions, such as the Lewy body dementia that is the subject of the research noted here, in which the causative biological changes build up over years or decades prior to evident symptoms. Early intervention with even presently available strategies or lifestyle changes might be enough to meaningfully delay the onset of disease.

Lewy body disease is an umbrella term for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body demen…

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