{"id":15360,"date":"2020-03-03T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15360"},"modified":"2020-03-03T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:34:50","slug":"a-simple-blood-test-may-soon-be-able-to-diagnose-patients-with-two-common-forms-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15360","title":{"rendered":"A simple blood test may soon be able to diagnose patients with two common forms of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently no blood test that exists to diagnose patients with two common forms of dementia \u2013 Alzheimer\u2019s disease and frontotemporal dementia and tell the two apart.\u00a0 However, researchers at UC San Francisco say they hope to see such a test available in doctor\u2019s offices within five years.\u00a0 Currently Alzheimer\u2019s diagnoses can only be confirmed by a PET scan of the brain or a lumbar puncture to test cerebrospinal fluid. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/416761\/new-blood-test-could-make-alzheimers-diagnosis-easier-ever\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently no blood test that exists to diagnose patients with two common forms of dementia \u2013 Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15361,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15360\/revisions\/15361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}