Researchers show that a quick nasal swab can pick up early biological changes linked to Alzheimer’s, even before thinking and memory problems appear.
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For those who didn’t read the article, they ask patients to insert a nasal swab into either nostril for 5 minutes. Meanwhile they have you fill out a questionnaire. Once complete, you are free to leave.
Any patient who walks out of the office with the swab still jammed up their nose is likely to be developing Alzheimer’s.
Thank you for saving me from reading the article.
I also found a nasal swab up my nose, but that is from an unrelated drinking problem.Well, good job, dude.
A completely made-up response “for those who didn’t read the article,” and it continues to be upvoted.
I posted what the article actually says and no one cares.
AmidFuror: 1 ; Faith in humanity: 0
I have more faith in humanity. I think the upvotes are because it’s recognized as a joke.
I’m glad to hear that. Maybe try running the experiment a few more times though.
ITERATE, we say, nay demand iteration!
I plan to publish in the Journal of Unreproducible Results.
I could see some people taking it as fact because that’s close to how they diagnose ADHD. They make you do a test and track your behavior during the test rather than your answers.
The procedure to collect nasal cells took just a few minutes. After applying a numbing spray, a clinician guides a tiny brush into the upper part of the nose where smell-detecting nerve cells live. Researchers then study the collected cells to see which genes are active, a sign of what’s happening inside the brain.
The study compared samples from 22 participants, measuring the activity of thousands of genes across hundreds of thousands of individual cells, amounting to millions of data points. The nasal swab was able to pick up early shifts in nerve and immune cells. This includes people who showed lab-based signs of Alzheimer’s but had no symptoms yet.
A combined nose tissue gene score correctly separated early and clinical Alzheimer’s from healthy controls about 81% of the time.
