Too Early To Promote Smell Test For Alzheimer’s

<p>Editors ChoiceMain Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Article Date: 02 May 2012 15:00 PDT</p>

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A investigate published online in The Laryngoscope reveals that stream studies do not support a use of olfactory marker tests (smell tests) for presaging Alzheimers dementia.</p>

<p>Alzheimers is a on-going illness that causes detriment of mind duty and is a many common means of dementia. The illness is approaching to double each 20 years by a year 2040.</p>

<p>The study, conducted by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars during a University of Michigan and a VA Center for Clinical Management Research, is a initial systematic examination of a apportion and peculiarity of these tests as premonitory collection for Alzheimers.</p>

<p>Gordon Sun, M.D., a...