Researchers warn social media driving harmful misuse of Alzheimer’s blood tests

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Researchers warn social media driving harmful misuse of Alzheimer’s blood tests

Exclusive: Alzheimer’s blood tests should not be used on their own and risk leading people to believe they are inevitably going to develop dementia Researchers have warned that social media may be misleading healthy people into taking Alzheimer’s blood tests, causing severe anxiety over biological markers that may never actually cause dementia. Blood-based biomarker tests, such as p-tau217 and p-tau181, detect biolog…