“When it comes to Alzheimer’s, iron may not be good ferrous”
Augh! NewScientist loves its headlines, but that one just makes me ITCH!
Anyways, it’s about a study in Australia:
Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia followed 144 older people who had mild cognitive impairment for seven years. To gauge how much iron was in their brains, they measured ferritin, a protein that binds to the metal, in their cerebrospinal fluid. For every nanogram per millilitre people had at the start of the study, they were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s on average three months earlier.
(NewScientist 23 May 2015, paywall, and the headline is only in the print edition.)
