Future Approaches in Preclinical Diagnosis of AD

Clinical diagnosis of AD is not difficult once the disease is established, but early diagnosis before dementia becomes overt is far from perfect, although it is likely that many therapies will be most effective in the early stages of AD. Thus, there is a great need for techniques to detect AD in the preclinical stages. 

These preliminary findings strongly support the view of using multiple markers to distinguish AD from normal and speak to the potential use of proteomics in developing tests for AD. 

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