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Opinion: Too many older Americans are getting tested for Alzheimer's [Los Angeles Times (CA)]

Labcorp Holdings Inc. (LH) 
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This patient, like several others in my practice, has taken cognitive tests annually for more than a decade. With each passing year, I see and hear the patient's spiral of worry: Am I getting more forgetful? Perhaps it feels like “Where are my keys?” and “Where did I leave my wallet?” have become common refrains. These are simple memory lapses, an experience most people have throughout their lives, but they can be troubling as we get older. Are they signs of Alzheimer's? Or signs of that other dreadful A-word … aging? Year after year, for 10 years, in fact, this patient's cognitive tests had come back normal. Until this year, when a blood test was positive for biomarkers for Alzheimer's — triggering a further sense of panic. But here's the problem: Science can't yet tell us whether a positive test means the patient has an early stage of the disease. The only new data point was that this patient, so long dreading this day, had positive biomarkers showing increased risk for the dise Show less Read more
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