Eye and smell tests may reveal early dementia signs

Simple eye and smell tests could be used to spot dementia years before sufferers experience memory symptoms, new research suggests.

Eye and smell tests may reveal early dementia signs

Simple eye and smell tests could be used to spot dementia years before sufferers experience memory symptoms, new research suggests.

Researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology found a link between poor cognitive ability - a "clear warning sign" of the early stages of Alzheimer's - and the thickness of people's retinal nerves.

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