Researchers classify Alzheimer’s patients into 6 subgroups | University of Washington

“Researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease have created an approach to classify patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a finding that may open the door for personalized treatments. ‘Alzheimer’s, like breast cancer, is not one disease,’ said lead author Shubhabrata Mukherjee, research assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. ‘I think a good drug might fail in a clinical trial because not all the subjects have the same kind of Alzheimer’s.'”
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