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Analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid is the most powerful weapon in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, as the scientists say. With it, you can detect the terrible disease years before it starts to show.

Alzheimer's disease is often preceded by a condition that doctors refer to it as mild cognitive impairment (RBM). It is characterized by problems with memory and thinking. According to statistics, about 15% of people with RBM subsequently become victims Alzheimer .

However, many of them unable to fully restore the functioning of the brain, but doctors can not determine which patients will go in this case to the amendment, and in any situation deteriorates. And now scientists have discovered that the determination of the concentration of two proteins cerebrospinal fluid   It makes 80 percent accuracy to get an answer to this question.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich analyzed proteins cerebrospinal fluid 58 RBM. 21 patients three years developed Alzheimer's disease . Scientists have identified two proteins, which are the most powerful predictors of the likelihood of the disease, along with the age of the patient.

German scientists stress that the level of these proteins on a regular basis is growing at a very early stage of Alzheimer's disease, so that the analysis can be considered as a very effective preventive measure. At present, science can not offer a cure for Alzheimer's disease, but the disease can be somewhat slow down, if you diagnose it as early as possible.

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