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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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So when I turned 40, I went in to get my checkup. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. So prior to the new criteria that were proposed in 2018, the criteria were the presence of amyloid in tau was the definition of Alzheimer’s disease. And a primary care provider has 18 minutes.