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Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

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108 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.29s | source
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mcswell ◴[19 Sep 25 23:27 UTC] No.45308024[source]▶
I am not understanding this: "It can’t directly predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, but it does identify who could be at a higher risk." I get the part that it can't "directly predict", but what does it mean to "identify who could be at a higher risk"? How was "higher risk" independently diagnosed in the study in order to show a correlation between higher risk according to this test, and higher risk according to some other test?
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1. dmbche ◴[20 Sep 25 02:39 UTC] No.45309751[source]▶
"Patients with amnestic MCI—who have memory loss as their main symptom and are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to people with non-amnestic MCI—had lower responses to the test, reports the Guardian’s Ian Sample. It can’t directly predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, but it does identify who could be at a higher risk."

It's correlated eith amnestic MCI, ehich itself correlated with higher risk of alzheimers(edit0:typo) (that's what I'm reading from the begining of the paragraph you quoted)