CHICAGO (Reuters) – Levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer's disease rise as people recover from brain injuries – a surprising finding that may help explain why injuries boost the risk of developing the disease, U.S. and Italian researchers said on Thursday. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Milan did hour-by-hour measurements of the protein amyloid beta in 18 patients with severe brain injury as they were coming out of a coma
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This is important information because once we know how brain injury is linked to Alzheimer's Disease we can look for a way to prevent AD in TBI survivors.
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