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Something in Your Pee Could Predict Your Risk of One Kind of Dementia


Higher concentrations of a specific protein in urine may be a predictor for developing dementia, based on a large, recently published study by researchers from the Netherlands and Sweden.  Albumin is the most abundant protein in human plasma, the liquid portion of blood.

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