{"id":15053,"date":"2024-11-04T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2024-11-13T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T09:30:25","slug":"alzheimers-diagnosis-takes-more-than-biomarkers-working-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/alzheimers-diagnosis-takes-more-than-biomarkers-working-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#8217;s Diagnosis Takes More Than Biomarkers, Working Group Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Judy George<\/p>\n<p>Source Medpagetoday<\/p>\n<p>A definition of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8212; one that requires objective cognitive deficits in addition to brain amyloid for Alzheimer&#8217;s to be diagnosed &#8212; was proposed by the International Working Group (IWG).<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer&#8217;s Diseaseopens in a new tab or window (CTAD) annual meeting in Madrid and published simultaneously in JAMA Neurologyopens in a new tab or window.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extension of earlier positionsopens in a new tab or window by the IWG that for clinical use, cognitive symptoms must be present and a definition of Alzheimer&#8217;s rooted only in biomarkers is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alzheimer&#8217;s disease should be defined as a clinical-biological entity where a diagnosis is made in consideration of a clinical disorder supported by positive amyloid and tau biomarkers,&#8221; said Howard Feldman, MD, of the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, who presented the IWG recommendations at CTAD.<\/p>\n<p>This definition allows Alzheimer&#8217;s to be diagnosed at an early prodromal stage once mild but definite clinical features are evident, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/ctad\/112748\">https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/ctad\/112748<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Judy George Source Medpagetoday A definition of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8212; one that requires objective cognitive deficits in addition to brain amyloid for Alzheimer&#8217;s to be diagnosed &#8212; was proposed by the International Working Group (IWG). The proposal was presented at the Clinical Trials on Alzheimer&#8217;s Diseaseopens in a new tab or window (CTAD) annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,128,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cancer-metabolic-syndrome-og","category-brain","category-mental-dementia-parkinsons-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15054,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15053\/revisions\/15054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}