A recent study revealed that a test for Parkinson's can diagnose the disease long before the patient starts developing symptoms.
Set to appear in the December issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, the research, which compared the blood of Parkinson's patients and healthy people, resulted in a simple blood test that can be used to effectively detect Parkinson's disease in its earliest stages.
"A blood test for Parkinson's disease would mean you could find out if a person was in danger of getting the disease, before the symptoms started," said David Allsop, a researcher involved in the study. "This would help the development of medicines that could protect the brain, which would be better for the quality of life and future health of older people."
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