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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is amyloid testing difficult/expensive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The current gold-standard is a PET scan. Not crazy hard but also not the most common equipment, and reasonably expensive.

There are multiple companies trying to develop simpler tests such as blood or retina tests.