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STUDY: Artificial Intelligence can determine if you will suffer from "Alzheimer's"

2024-03-16 10:25:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

STUDY: Artificial Intelligence can determine if you will suffer from

ALZHEIMER'S disease can be predicted seven years before it presents symptoms in a person, according to a study. Machine learning models were able to spot the early warning signs of the condition of memory loss, US researchers found.

Lead researcher Alice Tang, a doctoral student at UC San Francisco, said AI helped identify other conditions associated with Alzheimer's years before its onset.

"This is a first step towards using AI in routine clinical data, not only to identify risk as quickly as possible, but also to understand the biology," she said. 

Around 944,000 Britons are currently living with dementia and experts predict the numbers will exceed one million by the end of the decade, The Sun reports. 

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of the condition and is thought to be caused by the build-up of proteins in the brain, including tau and amyloid.

There is currently no cure for the disease, although promising drugs to slow its progression are currently being tested. 

The latest study, published in Nature Aging, used AI to analyze the health data of more than 5 million people to see if there are any patterns linking Alzheimer's to other conditions.

High blood pressure, cholesterol and vitamin D deficiency were linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer's in both men and women. Men were also more at risk if they had erectile dysfunction or an enlarged prostate. While women had a greater chance if they had osteoporosis - the bone disease.

The AI ??system was able to accurately predict Alzheimer's in 72 percent of patients who went on to suffer from the disease./ CNA 

 





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