A study involving 8,623 individuals found that reduced visual sensitivity, detectable via eye tests, can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis.
  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    At the start of the study, we asked participants to take a visual sensitivity test. For the test, they had to press a button as soon as they saw a triangle forming in a field of moving dots. People who would develop dementia were much slower to see this triangle on the screen than people who would remain without dementia