Alzheimer; News from the web:
Results from an extensive new study suggest that early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear up to 18 years before the disease is officially diagnosed.
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Category Archives: Detection
Alzheimer warning signs
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Article with lots of pointers and warning signs that you may be susceptible to Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.
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New link between alzheimer and diabetes?
Alzheimer; News from the web:
We have reported on this before but here is a new piece of research that seems to confirm a relation between diabetes and alzheimer.
The new study – in mice – shows that elevated glucose in the blood can rapidly increase levels of amyloid beta, a key component of brain plaques in Alzheimer’s patients. The buildup of plaques is thought to be an early driver of the complex set of changes that Alzheimer’s causes in the brain.
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Loosing smell is an early sign of Alzheimer
Alzheimer; News from the web:
In fact, docs sometimes detect Alzheimer’s using a “peanut butter test” — asking a patient if he or she can detect its strong odor when it is held up to the nose. Other clues: When an older woman wears a ton of perfume, not knowing how strong it is, or a man adds a lot of spicy tabasco sauce to food because he can’t taste or smell it.
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Brush your teeth to find out if you have Alzheimer
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Scientists believe embedding tiny DNA sequencers into household products could trigger a healthcare revolution.
Silicon microchips capable of reading and encoding DNA – dubbed Nanopore sequencers – are now small enough to be built into TOOTHBRUSHES.
The technology could help thousands quickly detect the onset of a fatal disease, such as Alzheimer’s and cancer
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Your doctor also struggles with Alzheimer
Alzheimer; News from the web:
Dr. Lewis E. Winans, senior medical director at Reading Hospital, described Alzheimer’s as devastating and difficult to diagnose. Certainly, doctors don’t want to make the diagnosis until they are sure, he said.Talking to patients about Alzheimer’s is more difficult than talking about cancer, he said, because there has been so much medical progress in treating various cancers.”The problem is (with Alzheimer’s) there is no treatment to cure it,” Winans explained. “There is medicine that slows the progression.” –
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