{"id":5685,"date":"2025-07-29T23:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/alzheimers-blood-tests-new-diagnosis-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:02:43","slug":"alzheimers-blood-tests-new-diagnosis-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/alzheimers-blood-tests-new-diagnosis-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Alzheimer\u2019s group says some blood tests may be used in place of brain scans for diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Major Alzheimer\u2019s group says some blood tests may be used in place of brain scans for diagnosis<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A major Alzheimer\u2019s disease medical group <a href=\"https:\/\/aaic.alz.org\/releases-2025\/clinical-practice-guideline-blood-based-biomarkers.asp\">is recommending <\/a>that specialists may use certain blood tests to help diagnose patients with cognitive impairment in lieu of more complex and invasive tests, a move that could lead more people to get treated for the devastating disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Alzheimer\u2019s Association, in its first clinical guidelines on blood biomarker testing, said Tuesday that tests that have over 90% sensitivity (ability to identify positive results) and 90% specificity (ability to identify negative results) can be used instead of current diagnostic methods like PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid tests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/29\/alzheimers-blood-tests-new-diagnosis-guidelines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elaine Chen<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/29\/alzheimers-blood-tests-new-diagnosis-guidelines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Alzheimer\u2019s group says some blood tests may be used in place of brain scans for diagnosis A major Alzheimer\u2019s disease medical group is recommending that specialists may use certain blood tests to help diagnose patients with cognitive impairment in lieu of more complex and invasive tests, a move that could lead more people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2705,2629,1428,2313],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","category-diagnostics","category-health","category-patients","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}