An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers report — but it remains unclear how much difference that might make in people’s lives.
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers reported Tuesday — but it remains unclear how much difference that might make in people’s lives.earlier this fall that the drug lecanemab appeared
Those given lecanemab declined more slowly — a difference of not quite half a point on that scale, concluded the research team led by Dr. Christopher van Dyck at Yale University.That’s a hard-to-understand change, but measured a different way, lecanemab delayed patients’ worsening by about five months over the course of the study, Eisai’s Dr. Michael Irizarry told The Associated Press. Also, lecanemab recipients were 31% less likely to advance to the next stage of the disease during the study.
behind Alzheimer’s — can delay disease progression, said Maria Carrillo, chief science officer for the Alzheimer’s Association. Also, two deaths have been publicly reported among lecanemab users who also were taking blood-thinning medications for other health problems. Eisai said Tuesday the deaths can’t be attributed to the Alzheimer’s drug.
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