Patients with Alzheimer’s exhibit significant changes in retinal microvasculature

When compared with patients with mild cognitive impairment and control subjects, patients with Alzheimer’s disease exhibited significantly reduced macular vessel density, perfusion density and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness, according to a study.
“Our findings are important because they suggest that one day we may have an inexpensive, quick and noninvasive way to screen asymptomatic persons for Alzheimer’s and then enter them into clinical trials studying novel therapeutics, which may be more effective earlier in the disease process. We may then be able to find

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