{"id":943628,"date":"2026-05-07T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943628\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:01:19","slug":"at-home-test-could-spot-alzheimers-risk-early-exeter-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943628\/","title":{"rendered":"At-home test could spot Alzheimer&#8217;s risk early &#8211; Exeter research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study, published in Nature Communications, involved 174 people who completed the home kit and posted their blood samples back to a lab. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sheona Scales, of Alzheimer&#8217;s Research UK, said: &#8220;Finger-prick blood tests could revolutionise dementia diagnosis, they offer a low cost, scalable way to identify people who may be at higher risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and who should be offered further checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that larger studies were still needed to confirm how well the test worked in everyday healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study, published in Nature Communications, involved 174 people who completed the home kit and posted their blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116532955474272309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}