ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE The A4 Study: Stopping AD Before Symptoms Begin?

You'll have to remind your doctor that your 33% chance of getting dementia/Alzheimers post stroke
is needed to be stopped. Have her/him get this and see if it's useful. And look at that; authors email is enclosed.
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/228/228fs13.abstract

1. Reisa A. Sperling¹,²,^*,
2. Dorene M. Rentz¹,²,
3. Keith A. Johnson¹,²,³,
4. Jason Karlawish⁴,
5. Michael Donohue⁵,
6. David P. Salmon⁵ and
7. Paul Aisen⁵

+ Author Affiliations

1. ¹Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2. ²Harvard Aging Brain Study, Department of Neurology and
3. ³Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
4. ⁴Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
5. ⁵Alzheimer Disease Cooperative Study, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.

1. ↵* Corresponding author. E-mail: reisa@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Abstract

A new secondary prevention trial in older people with amyloid accumulation at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease dementia should provide insights into whether anti-amyloid therapy can delay cognitive decline.

• Copyright © 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Citation: R. A. Sperling, D. M. Rentz, K. A. Johnson, J. Karlawish, M. Donohue, D. P. Salmon, P. Aisen, The A4 Study: Stopping AD Before Symptoms Begin? Sci. Transl. Med. 6, 228fs13 (2014).

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