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It’s no medical mystery that the most effective way to treat Alzheimer’s disease is early and aggressively. But promising new research out of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is offering increased hope for earlier detection of the disease.
Falls, it turns out, are more common among individuals with the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s. Researchers at the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center presented their findings Sunday at the 2011 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Paris. In some instances – according to Maria Carrillo, senior director of medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer’s Association, so-called silent biological changes in the brain may take place a decade or more before the outward symptoms begin to manifest.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, the only one of the top ten causes of death that can’t be prevented, cured, or slowed.
“We know that the medicine that we currently have works best if given very early,” says Dr. Sam Gandy, professor of psychology and neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. “All the trials we’re doing with new medications target very early stages of the disease. We want to stop the pathology.” Which is why it’s of the utmost importance that the disease be detected as early as possible.
Read more: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/...ate-earliest-stages-of-alzheimer’s/?hpt=he_c2
Falls, it turns out, are more common among individuals with the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s. Researchers at the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center presented their findings Sunday at the 2011 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Paris. In some instances – according to Maria Carrillo, senior director of medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer’s Association, so-called silent biological changes in the brain may take place a decade or more before the outward symptoms begin to manifest.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, the only one of the top ten causes of death that can’t be prevented, cured, or slowed.
“We know that the medicine that we currently have works best if given very early,” says Dr. Sam Gandy, professor of psychology and neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. “All the trials we’re doing with new medications target very early stages of the disease. We want to stop the pathology.” Which is why it’s of the utmost importance that the disease be detected as early as possible.
Read more: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/...ate-earliest-stages-of-alzheimer’s/?hpt=he_c2
