Modifiable risk factors linked to spread of Alzheimer’s tau tangles, suggesting path to slower disease progression

Education, body mass index (BMI), and hypertension play a role in the spread of tau tangles, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, according to longitudinal PET imaging data presented at the 2025 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting. For patients, timely modification of these risk factors could slow down disease progression. The abstract was published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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