Should You Get an Alzheimer’s Blood Test? Dr. Sabbagh Weighs In

When Sabbagh talks about early testing for Alzheimer’s, he talks a lot about presentation, not the test itself, but how it’s handed to someone. Using spinal fluid testing as one example, he put it plainly: “It’s about how we present it.” He does the procedure in his own office. He walks patients through what he’s already seen it do for other people. He takes the fear out of the room before he takes the fluid out of the spine. It’s the same instinct he brings to blood test results: the number on the page is only half of it. What he says next is the other half.