Is alzheimer’s disease in your future?
To me, this is an important development. I believe you can take steps to help delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and I have written about them often on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room.Delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s means a better chance for the baby boom generation to benefit from a new treatment or cure.This new risk index could be important for research…It could be used to identify people at high risk for dementia…The tool could also identify people who have no signs of dementia but should be monitored closely, allowing them to begin treatment as soon as possible, and potentially helping them maintain their thinking and memory skills and quality of life longer — Deborah E. BarnesTo develop the index, researchers in the Cardiovascular Health Study examined 3,375 people with an a…
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