Associations between lifestyle and reduced risk of Alzheimer’s
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If it were possible to prevent Alzheimer’s disease by making lifestyle changes, Ralph Burde wouldn’t be living with it today, his wife of 40 years firmly believes.
Mary Burde was talking recently about research results presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Paris. Its conclusions: Reducing lifestyle-based risk factors by 25 percent could prevent 3 million cases of Alzheimer’s disease worldwide. Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, is a progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory, thinking skills and the ability to perform even the simplest tasks. Damage to the brain begins as many as 10 to 20 years before obvious signs of forgetfulness occur, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The findings presented in France were based on a new mathematical model used to calculate the percentage of cases attributable to behaviors/conditions that have been associated with Alzheimer’s: diabetes, mid-life hypertension, mid-life obesity, smoking, depression, low educational attainment and physical inactivity.
The research by Deborah Barnes, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues found about half of Alzheimer’s cases — 17 million worldwide and nearly 3 million in the U.S. — might be attributable to the seven modifiable risk factors.
However, the researchers point out, the model assumes these risk factors cause Alzheimer’s, and that has not been proven. Continue to read: mlive.com
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