Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict
future cognitive decline among adults with
mild or no
cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study led by Duke Medicine.
To illustrate the effect of «bean counting» on disease data, recently revised guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease would reclassify nearly all patients who are currently diagnosed with
mild or very
mild Alzheimer's as having «
mild cognitive impairment», a new study finds announced this morning by TIME magazine's Healthland: http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/08/why-a-new-definition-of-
cognitive-
impairment-may-confuse-patients/ So if you see numbers in the near
future with Alzheimer's disease essentially eradicated, it wasn't necessarily a result of saffron mania.