Scientists from the University of Cambridge have identified signs that can help determine the development of diseases,
The researchers analyzed data from the UKBiobank. It is a biomedical database containing anonymous genetic, lifestyle and health information for half a million Britons aged 40 to 69. Scientists have found that people who later developed dementia had experienced problems with problem solving and remembering a number under certain conditions years before.
Scientists have found that people who have developedAlzheimer's patients, years earlier, had shown lower results than healthy people when it came to solving math problems, performing exercises for reaction speed and memorizing numbers. In addition, problems were observed in the work of prospective memory, that is, the ability to remember what needs to be done.
Similar disorders have been observed in people whodeveloped a more rare form of dementia - frontotemporal. At the same time, Alzheimer's patients noted that over the past year they fell more often than healthy people.
There are currently very feweffective treatments for dementia or other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The authors of the study believe that this is largely due to the late diagnosis of diseases, when the destruction of the nervous system has gone too far. If early signs are used for screening and the risk of dementia is determined in advance, it will be possible to develop an effective treatment, scientists believe.
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