{"id":240996,"date":"2026-07-16T04:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/blood-test-helps-pcps-diagnose-ad-with-specialist-level-accuracy"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:05:56","slug":"blood-test-helps-pcps-diagnose-ad-with-specialist-level-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/blood-test-helps-pcps-diagnose-ad-with-specialist-level-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Blood Test Helps PCPs Diagnose AD With Specialist-Level Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-test-helps-pcps-diagnose-sad-with-specialist-level-accuracy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Blood-based biomarker (BBM) testing may enable primary care physicians (PCPs) to diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) as accurately as dementia specialists, potentially expanding access to accurate diagnosis beyond memory clinics, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>In a prospective study of more than 1,300 patients, PCPs achieved 93% diagnostic accuracy after reviewing BBM results, which was comparable to the 94% accuracy of dementia specialists. The test also changed clinicians\u2019 diagnoses and management plans in a substantial proportion of cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy equipping primary care practitioners with blood test results, we see that they\u2019re as accurate as dementia experts in definitely ruling out [AD],\u201d study investigator Sebastian Palmqvist, MD, PhD, senior consultant neurologist and associate professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, told <em>Medscape Medical News<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Blood-based biomarker (BBM) testing may enable primary care physicians (PCPs) to diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) as accurately as dementia specialists, potentially expanding access to accurate diagnosis beyond memory clinics, new research suggests. In a prospective study of more than 1,300 patients, PCPs achieved 93% diagnostic accuracy after reviewing BBM results, which was comparable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240996","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=240996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}