Blood proteins shift during Alzheimer's treatment and may help monitor the effects of the medication
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Patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may be prescribed anti-amyloid therapy to help clear sticky clumps of amyloid protein in the brain that characterize the condition. Although these treatments cannot cure Alzheimer's or restore cognitive function to normal, they have been shown to slow the disease's progression. Currently, clinicians lack a method to monitor treatment in individual patients other than expensive brain scans, and the effects of the medication may vary.
Blood proteins shift during Alzheimer's treatment and may help monitor the effects of the medication.
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