{"id":4983,"date":"2023-07-26T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:25:01","slug":"alzheimers-drug-donanemab-helps-most-when-taken-at-earliest-disease-stage-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4983","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Drug Donanemab Helps Most When Taken at Earliest Disease Stage, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the drug, an antibody that attacks the protein amyloid, does not work as well in people with more advanced disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4984\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180.png 767w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-180-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An experimental drug can slow progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in those who start taking it when the disease is still in its early stages. The drug, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01537-5\">monoclonal antibody called donanemab<\/a>, does not improve symptoms. But among people who started taking it at the earliest stages of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-00651-0\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, 47% had no disease progression on some measures after one year, compared with 29% who took a placebo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02321-1\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02321-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the drug, an antibody that attacks the protein amyloid, does not work as well in people with more advanced disease. An experimental drug can slow progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease in those who start taking it when the disease is still in its early stages. The drug, a\u00a0monoclonal antibody called donanemab, does not improve symptoms. But among people who started taking it at the earliest stages of\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s, 47% had no disease progression on some measures after one year, compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}