An accomplished construction industry executive, Long Island resident Arthur Godsell has served as president of Godsell Construction Corporation in Hicksville, New York, since 1997. Outside of his professional endeavors, Arthur Godsell supports several nonprofit charitable organizations, including the Alzheimer’s Association (AA). The organization aims to find new treatments and a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. AA recently highlighted a study that showed a new type of brain scan that has the potential to significantly impact how doctors treat patients who suffer from mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the result of protein abnormalities in the brain also known as plaques and/or tangles. Until recently, protein plaques could only be definitively identified by examining brain tissue after death. A new imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) has shown the ability to accurately identify these types of amyloid plaques. There’s only one problem: most major government and private health insurance plans will not cover the cost of the procedure. In an effort to help further demonstrate the efficacy of these scans and push insurance companies to cover them, researchers examined how doctors changed their treatment of patients with cognitive decline and dementia when they had the imaging information available to them. Over a four-year period, researchers discovered that doctors ended up changing the treatment plans for upwards of 60 percent of patients based on PET imaging data. This is more than twice the number of patients predicted by researchers at the study outset. The data reveals a significant benefit of PET imaging and how it can influence how doctors treat these patients.
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AuthorFor more than 19 years, Arthur Godsell has served as president of Godsell Construction Corporation, a family-owned construction company based in Hicksville, New York. Archives
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