Fatty liver can mimic Alzheimer's symptoms
(nonalcoholic fatty liver disease)
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Liver disease such as, cirrhosis of the liver, was long thought of a condition basically associated with an alcoholic. This has changed, while liver disease is still a danger for alcoholics, more and more liver disease is being caused by fat. Fat building up in the liver leads to malnutrition. The symptoms of liver disease might be something the average person wouldn't suspect, as it mimics the symptoms of Alzheimer Disease or dementia in later stages. With very few symptoms surfacing, and most likely none at all, in the early stages of this liver disease. With obesity in the U.S. an epidemic, doctors are seeing more and more of patients with liver disease caused by fat.
CNN recently interviewed Wilson Alvarado and his wife Patricia and their story is one that is happening more often today. Wilson got lost on the way to a neighborhood park, one that he frequented weekly for 30 years. He assured his wife that all is well and that at 62 he was just getting older and that comes with forgetfulness. The route to the park was not only familiar to Wilson, but it was only a half a mile away for the house. The incident passed, but another one soon occurred, where he got lost again going to the same park. Then he went to the grocery store one day and called his wife to ask her why he was there.
"I thought, well, maybe he really is just getting old," Patricia recalls. "My mother has Alzheimer's, and I thought maybe that was it." According to CNN Patricia found it easy to overlook these incidents and chalk them up to little memory lapses. A few years later though, Wilson went to visit relatives in Puerto Rico and while there he wasn't making any sense. He was taken to the hospital, but he got so aggressive while there, they had to use restraints. "It was really horrifying," Patricia says. Continue to read: huliq.com
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