Does race affect interpretation of Alzheimer's disease tests? - LabPulse


4/22/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Will Morton, LabPulse.com contributing writer

Experimental blood tests for identifying patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease appear to perform differently in Black people compared to white people, according to a study published April 21 in <em>Neurology</em>.

An international team led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, compared three experimental blood tests and a commercially available Alzheimer's disease test th… [+2084 chars]

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