{"id":1879,"date":"2015-02-26T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:31:13","slug":"are-you-eligible-for-an-alzheimer-prevention-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Are you eligible for an Alzheimer Prevention Trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-synapses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1882\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-synapses-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"02-synapses\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-synapses-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-synapses-115x55.jpg 115w, https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-synapses.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have parents who have Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and you&#8217;re concerned that you may soon be developing symptoms yourself? \u00a0That you want a cure to be found before it&#8217;s too late for you or your children? \u00a0There is something you can do. \u00a0Several prevention trials are going on that you may be interested in. \u00a0In particular, the <a title=\"A4 Study\" href=\"http:\/\/a4study.org\/about\/\">A4 Study <\/a>is for people with no symptoms but may have several reasons for thinking they may develop Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. The researchers need 1000 people to participate. You may be eligible if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are 65 to 85 years old<\/li>\n<li>Have normal thinking and memory abilities<\/li>\n<li>Have an A4 study partner \u2013 someone who has at least weekly contact with you who can answer questions once a year<\/li>\n<li>Are willing and able to receive IV infusions of the investigational treatment or placebo for 36 months (36 monthly infusions); all A4 participants must be willing and able to participate in all required procedures for the duration of the A4 study.<\/li>\n<li>Are willing to have your health monitored throughout the study using assessments such as:\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li type=\"circle\">Memory and thinking tests<\/li>\n<li type=\"circle\">ECGs (a look at your heart)<\/li>\n<li type=\"circle\">PET scan (a way to look for the plaques thought to be associated with AD)<\/li>\n<li type=\"circle\">MRI scans (a way to take a picture of your brain)<\/li>\n<li type=\"circle\">Blood and urine tests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to\u00a0<a title=\"Location\" href=\"http:\/\/a4study.org\/locations\/\">Find a location where this trial is going on<\/a>\u00a0. \u00a0Other<a title=\"Trial Match\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/research\/clinical_trials\/find_clinical_trials_trialmatch.asp\"> trial match<\/a> opportunities may be found at <a title=\"Alzheimer's Association\" href=\"http:\/\/alz.org\">alz.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have parents who have Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and you&#8217;re concerned that you may soon be developing symptoms yourself? \u00a0That you want a cure to be found before it&#8217;s too late for you or your children? \u00a0There is something you can do. \u00a0Several prevention trials are going on that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65,14,18,451],"tags":[452,453,454,488,377,494],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers-association","category-links","category-medical-information","category-trial-match","tag-a4-study","tag-alz-org","tag-alzheimer-prevention-trials","tag-alzheimers-association","tag-caregivers-unite-org","tag-trial-match"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cxZR-uj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caregiversunite.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}