{"id":231615,"date":"2026-02-19T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/blood-test-clocks-can-predict-when-alzheimers-symptoms-will-start"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:10:28","slug":"blood-test-clocks-can-predict-when-alzheimers-symptoms-will-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/blood-test-clocks-can-predict-when-alzheimers-symptoms-will-start","title":{"rendered":"Blood test \u2018clocks\u2019 can predict when Alzheimer\u2019s symptoms will start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-test-clocks-can-predict-when-alzheimers-symptoms-will-start3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a method to predict when someone is likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer\u2019s disease using a single blood test. In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-026-04206-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Medicine<\/i>, the researchers demonstrated that their models predicted the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s symptoms within a margin of three to four years.<\/p>\n<p>This method could have implications both for clinical trials developing preventive Alzheimer\u2019s treatments and for eventually identifying individuals likely to benefit from these treatments.<\/p>\n<p>More than seven million Americans live with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, with health and long-term care costs for Alzheimer\u2019s and other forms of dementia projected to reach nearly $400 billion in 2025, according to the Alzheimer\u2019s Association. This massive public health burden currently has no cure, but predictive models could help efforts to develop treatments that prevent or slow the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a method to predict when someone is likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer\u2019s disease using a single blood test. In a study published in Nature Medicine, the researchers demonstrated that their models predicted the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s symptoms within a margin of three [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}