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Where the researchers once could only diagnose Alzheimer after a patient’s death with an autopsy, these days we can see the disease progress with brainscans and can treat it with inserting medicine directly into the brain. Yet the best shot at getting Alzheimer under control, while 35 million people worldwide now suffer from this disease, is to switch the efforts to prevention.
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Researchers will test an experimental drug that could prevent Alzheimer’s disease in people who are genetically slated to develop Alzheimer’s disease but have yet to exhibit symptoms
As part of the National Alzheimer’s Plan, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $16 million grant to Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Arizona to fund the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative (API), which will study whether a plaque-fighting treatment can prevent the disease. The trial will take place in Medellín, Colombia as well as select sites in North America. The majority of the study participants will come from an extended family of 5,000 people living in Medellín who are considered part of the world’s largest family affected by Alzheimer’s. The New York Times reports the family members have a specific genetic mutation that causes symptoms of cognitive impairment around age 45, then full dementia around age 51.
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USA Today pointed out that nearly 5 million people in the United States already have Alzheimer’s disease. That number could triple by 2025 as the U.S. population ages, the publication reported.
The upcoming research is exciting, but there are also some things we already know about the prevention of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Click through to see what science has shown — or at least suggested — to work at warding off the memory-robbing condition.
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The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer’s Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
The Obama administration finalizes the landmark national strategy on Tuesday, laying out numerous steps the government and private partners can take over the coming years to fight what is poised to become a defining disease of the rapidly aging population.
But some of the work is beginning right away.
Starting Tuesday, embattled families and caregivers can check a new one-stop website — www.alzheimers.gov — for easy-to-understand information about dementia and where to get help in their own communities.
The National Institutes of Health is funding some major new studies of possible therapies, including a form of insulin that’s squirted into the nose.
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Eating foods such as chicken, fish and nuts may help lower blood levels of a protein strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease and memory problems, according to new research.
In the Columbia University study, people who consumed diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids had significantly lower levels of a protein called beta-amyloid in their blood than those who did not consume as much of the nutrient.
According to the research, eating one more gram of omega-3s than average per week was associated with 20 to 30 percent lower levels of beta-amyloid. One gram is approximately equal to half a fillet of salmon.
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