A new list of Alzheimer's signs and symptoms
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This week, the National Institute of Aging issued new guidelines regarding the diagnosis and natural history of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The disease has now been divided into three stages--a preclinical, asymptomatic phase where there is evidence in body fluids or on brain imaging of early changes, a middle phase where symptoms develop and a final phase of full-blown dementia.
Over the past decades billions of dollars have been spent on AD research. There has been significant progress in understanding the disease’s natural history, particularly the early stages. Unfortunately, this has not been met with equal success on the clinical front.
AD is the most common cause of dementia, a syndrome characterized by slow and persistent loss of memory, judgment and reasoning. Areas such as calculating, writing and multitasking are affected. Besides AD, the most common causes of dementia are “vascular dementia” and Parkinson disease. The former is caused by multiple strokes, either apparent or subclinical. The latter is dementia associated with the familiar movement disorder. Read more: eastmeadow.patch.com
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Vitamin D - one piece of the puzzle of race and blood pressure
Vitamin D - one piece of the puzzle of race and blood pressure
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is more common and often more deadly in blacks than in whites, and a new University of Rochester study shows that low vitamin D levels among black people might be a powerful factor that contributes to the racial differences in hypertension. Read more: medicalxpress.com
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