Researchers have developed a blood test to predict patients who would 'develop Parkinson’s - up to seven years before symptoms began'.
Could similar research bring potential benefits for RLS?
'The markers were directly linked to inflammation and degradation of proteins and could be used to develop new drug treatments for Parkinson's, they (researchers) said.'
“At present we are shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted," senior author Prof Kevin Mills, from UCL's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said. "We need to start experimental treatments before patients develop symptoms."
'Prof Ray Chaudhuri, professor of movement disorders and neurology, at King’s College Hospital and King’s College London, said blood tests for Parkinson's diagnosis and prediction were "a massive unmet need" - but questioned whether the move was ethical given there was no cure." '