{"id":986547,"date":"2026-01-20T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986547"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:16:37","slug":"ai-driven-blood-test-offers-early-alzheimers-diagnosis-as-8-8-million-indians-live-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/ai-driven-blood-test-offers-early-alzheimers-diagnosis-as-8-8-million-indians-live-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven blood test offers early Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis as 8.8 million Indians live with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Over 8.8 million Indians aged 60 and above are living with dementia, with Alzheimer\u2019s accounting for the majority of cases, experts said on Sunday, as Mahajan Imaging &amp; Labs launched an AI-integrated blood biomarker test designed to enable early and accurate diagnosis of the disease. <\/p>\n<p>The number of people living with dementia in India is projected to nearly double over the next decade, underscoring the growing need for diagnostic tools that support timely intervention and care planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Over 8.8 million Indians aged 60 and above are living with dementia, with Alzheimer\u2019s accounting for the majority of cases, experts said on Sunday, as Mahajan Imaging &amp; Labs launched an AI-integrated blood biomarker test designed to enable early and accurate diagnosis of the disease. The number of people living with dementia in India is projected to nearly double over the next decade, underscoring the growing need for diagnostic tools that support timely intervention and care planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}