Alzheimer’s, Dementia Rise Faster Than Expected, Report Says

[steven johnson]

Alzheimer's or any dementia really takes a toll. I know. My mother has it and it's really no fun for either of us.

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias will afflict 35.6 million people in 2010, about 10 percent more than previously estimated because of a higher number of cases in developing countries than doctors realized, researchers said.

The number of dementia sufferers may almost double every 20 years to 115.4 million in 2050, researchers at Alzheimer’s Disease International said in a report. The report’s authors had previously projected lower numbers in a 2005 article in the Lancet.

Lower and middle-income countries have the fastest increase in prevalence in the next 20 years, the report said. The poorest countries in Latin America will see the biggest increases of 134 to 146 percent. The new numbers are due to better data available since there weren’t many studies of Latin America, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, and Indonesia, the report said.

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias cost $315 billion a year, according to an estimate from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute cited by the paper. Dementia care costs are rising fastest in low and middle income countries, where per capita income is $11,905 or less, the report found.


Alzheimer’s, Dementia Rise Faster Than Expected, Report Says

[the other one]

1. Processed foods, factory farms, meat thrice daily

These are your culprits

[WCGreen]

2. The study of age related disease is a relatively new area of medicne...

More people are living longer than ever before and more people are conducting research into the cause of what was once called senility.

There is a point where the research into a disease or condition affects the incident of the disease being studied.

Also, boomers are aging and don't want to see what happened to their parents happen to them.

[wuvuj]

3. Fat people have smaller brains...

http://www.naturalnews.com/027046_overweight_obesity_health.html


Obesity Linked To Brain Degeneration
by S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) While the talking heads on TV frantically warn about the so-called swine flu pandemic that is supposedly on the verge of causing world-wide suffering and death, there's another world-wide health problem of enormous proportions that's here, right now -- being overweight. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates more than 300 million people across the planet are obese, and another billion more are overweight. Being too fat isn't a cosmetic problem, it's a condition that kills people prematurely by leading to cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, stroke and type 2 diabetes.

** And now there's evidence that being too fat also causes brain degeneration and maybe even Alzheimer's disease.

In a study just published in the current online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping, a research team headed by Paul Thompson, senior author and a University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) professor of neurology, and lead author Cyrus A. Raji, a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, compared the brains of people who were obese, overweight, and of normal weight. To define the weight categories, the scientists used the Body Mass Index (BMI), to establish that normal weight people had a BMI between 18.5 and 25, overweight people had a BMI between 25 and 30, and obese people's BMI was more than 30.

The scientists wanted to document whether the brains of those in each of the three groups were equally normal and healthy. Surprisingly, they weren't. In fact, the scientists discovered that obese people had eight percent less brain tissue than people with normal weight. In addition, people who were only overweight and not downright obese still showed a loss of about four percent of brain tissue.

[nebenaube]

4. Well, there's an article in the journal "Sleep"...

that showed the brain shrinkage is from sleep apnea...

[NC_Nurse]

5. My mom has it too. It sucks for the whole family, but esp. her. Very sad.

[RC]

6. How much Alzheimer's disease is really Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

The bu$h administration went to great lengths to keep our meat supply from being checked.

[OllieLotte]

7. Living longer increases the chances of getting it as well. n/t

[xchrom]

8. wow -- what an interesting read of wishfuul woo-woo

thinking some of these responses have been.