Predicting Alzheimer’s Progression Based on One Patient Visit

After following two sets of Alzheimer’s patients for 10 years, a research team at the Columbia University Medical Center has validated a new means of predicting the trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease progression, predicting the time from a single patient visit to full-time care, nursing home residence or death in its sufferers. “Predicting Alzheimer’s progression has been a challenge because the disease varies significantly from one person to another—two Alzheimer’s patients may both appear to have mild forms of the disease, yet one may progress rapidly, while the other progresses much more slowly,” said the study’s senior author “Our method enables clinicians to predict the disease path with great specificity.” Click here to read details of the study.