STUDY EXPLORES MIDLIFE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BLOOD BIOMARKERS OF NEURODEGENERATION AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
The research team led by Natascha Merten, PhD, MS, assistant professor of population health sciences and medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, examined the extent that education, lifestyle factors and vascular and metabolic health in midlife were associated with the long-term increase in the blood levels of three pathological proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease and/or neurodegeneration: amyloid beta, tau, and neurofilament light chain protein.