Can Alzheimer's disease be prevented?
( delay or prevent onset of the disease )
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The significance of "Basics of Alzheimer's
Disease Prevention" is that it provides for the first time, a strategic blueprint using the 4 pillars of preventive medicine. These pillars are:
- Identification of disease-related and lifestyle risk factors;
- Pathologic consequences and impact of AD risk; factors
- Detection of AD risk factors;
- Treatment of AD risk factors.
Guest editor Jack C. de la Torre, MD, PhD, from the Center for Alzheimer's Research, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City, Arizona, USA, has assembled a collection of 24 articles that address these four pillars of AD prevention. According to Dr. de la Torre, "Just as the harmful consequences of
cervical cancer, pancreatitis, severe anemia, and
acute renal failure can be generally improved through routine lab test detection and administration of appropriate therapy, so too can preclinical AD become responsive to early detection of risk factors and targeted treatments aimed at reducing the severity and progress of the discovered pathology. Unlike the potentially lethal disorders stated above, people with AD have no
effective treatment options—prevention thus becomes the alternate and essential primary weapon to combat this disease." The strategies proposed offer a realistic hope to the millions of people who face a range of maladies associated with aging and cognitive decline, including multiple risk factors that can culminate in dementia. This approach of knowledge-to-action using evidence-based medical decisions to opt for the most judicious treatments or management of patients when risk factors to AD are discovered, as reviewed in this issue, should become a gold standard of clinical practice.
Read more: physorg.com
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