How to Calculate Alzheimer’s Risk

The first step is to do the measurement. So you go get an mri. You can't just do this at a hospital. They're not going to give you the answer. In fact, the Neuroquant study was to tell whether or not you do have Alzheimer's, more or less, versus are you going to get it in 10, 20 years from now? But now we can actually extrapolate that very accurately based on populations. So we know a certain percentage of population at every age is going to get Alzheimer's disease and they're going to have the most shrunken brains and the most presence of cerebral spinal fluid. And if you get your MRI done when you're, say, 50 and you're at the 70 percentile, yeah, you're in pretty good shape. You're not going to get Alzheimer's in the next 20 years. If you're 60 and now you're in the 50 percentile, you might want to take some action because your risk of Alzheimer's at 80 years old is now going up. You're having an average rate risk of Alzheimer's. And if you're 60 years old and you're in the bottom 20%, well, then, now you have a very high risk of getting Alzheimer's in the next 20 years.