Minorities' higher Alzheimer's risk
Francisca Terrazas and other Latinas are about 1.5 times more likely than Anglos to develop Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, a new report says. Read how her family copes. (Source: CNN.com - Health)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 08:26 AM --
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Alzheimer's Disease More Prevalent in Blacks, Hispanics
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- African Americans and Hispanics are much more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, according to new figures from the Alzheimer’s Association. (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 07:43 AM --
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Minorities more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's: report
Minorities are at significantly higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, finds a new report from the Alzheimer's Association in the U.S. that has implications for minorities in Canada as well. (Source: CTV Health)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 07:15 AM --
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Alzheimer's Association Honors Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue With Humanitarian Award
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue is the recipient of the Alzheimer's Association's 2010 Humanitarian Award. The award is given each year to a public official who has made a significant contribution to help those who are struggling with Alzheimer's disease... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 05:00 AM --
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Alzheimer's Association Honors Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue With Humanitarian Award
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue is the recipient of the Alzheimer's Association's 2010 Humanitarian Award. The award is given each year to a public official who has made a significant contribution to help those who are struggling with Alzheimer's disease. This year, the award will be given to Commissioner Astrue in recognition of his exceptional leadership in creating the Compassionate Allowances Initiative and the decision to include early-onset Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in that initiative... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 05:00 AM --
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African-Americans And Hispanics More Likely To Have Alzheimer's Disease And Dementia Than Whites
According to the Alzheimer's Association's® 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer's and other dementias. Although whites make up the great majority of the more than five million people with Alzheimer's and other dementias, African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing the disease... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 05:00 AM --
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Has The Clock Struck 12 For Dimebon?
The Cinderella story eventually has a happy ending, but to revelers in the Dimebon story right now the time must feel like five past midnight. Some scientists have considered the sudden transformation of a modest hay fever medicine from Russia into the latest star in the AD drug development arena as a bit of a fairy tale all along. But it was hard for scientists and the media not to get swept up in the excitement over a young biotech company's $725 M dollar deal to develop Dimebon for a heart-breaking disease that has yet to see a truly effective treatment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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Has The Clock Struck 12 For Dimebon?
The Cinderella story eventually has a happy ending, but to revelers in the Dimebon story right now the time must feel like five past midnight. Some scientists have considered the sudden transformation of a modest hay fever medicine from Russia into the latest star in the AD drug development arena as a bit of a fairy tale all along... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 04:00 AM --
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Untreated Poor Vision: A Contributing Factor to Late-Life Dementia
Ophthalmologic abnormalities have been described in patients with dementia, but the extent to which poor vision and treatment for visual disorders affect cognitive decline is not well defined. Linked data from the Health and Retirement Study and Medicare files (1992–2005) were used to follow the experiences of 625 elderly US study participants with normal cognition at baseline. The outcome was a diagnosis of dementia, cognitively impaired but no dementia, or normal cognition. Poor vision was associated with development of dementia (P = 0.0048); individuals with very good or excellent vision at baseline had a 63% reduced risk of dementia (95% confidence interval (CI): 20, 82) over a mean follow-up period of 8.5 years. Participants with poorer vision who did not visit an ophthalmologis......
POSTED 03/08/2010 at 09:52 PM --
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Report: Minorities more likely to suffer Alzheimer's disease
A new report shows African-Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease as they age. (Source: USATODAY.com Health)...
POSTED 03/08/2010 at 07:06 PM --
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Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer's Disease
series:Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's DiseaseNeurons share more similarities with insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells than with any other cell type. The root of this similarity may lie in the islet’s evolution from an ancestral insulin-producing neuron. The islet-neuron connection becomes less surprising as we learn more about insulin’s involvement in functions far from its traditional role in mediating glucose uptake in muscle. The ... (Source: Springer Biomedical Sciences titles)...
POSTED 03/08/2010 at 06:05 PM --
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Retrospective evaluation of revised criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using a cohort with post-mortem diagnosis
The criteria currently used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease (AD) require the presence of dementia, i.e. cognitive impairment sufficient to affect normal social and/or occupational function. Dubois et al. (Dubois et al., ) have recently proposed a set of revised criteria that may aid the diagnosis of the earlier stages of AD, and do not require the presence of dementia. We aimed to evaluate the new predementia-AD criteria through their retrospective application to the OPTIMA cohort with post-mortem (PM) confirmed diagnoses.The criteria were evaluated for sensitivity and specificity using cognitive, neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid data and clinical information for exclusion criteria. Limitations in choice of cognitive test, use of CT scans rather than MRI and missing CSFs affected the o......
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Old Enemy Might Help to Prevent Alzheimer’s
Harvard researchers are taking a new look at beta amyloid, which was thought to be a chief villain in Alzheimer’s whose function was that of a waste product in the brain. (Source: NYT > Health)...
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
Researchers have tested the Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer, as an aid to people with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders. (Source: NYT > Health)...
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Worldwide distribution of PSEN1 Met146Leu mutation: A large variability for a founder mutation
Conclusions: Genealogic and molecular findings provided evidence that the PSEN1 Met146Leu families from around the world analyzed in this study are related and represent a single kindred originating from Southern Italy. The marked phenotypic variability might reflect early involvement by the pathologic process of different cortical areas. Although the clinical phenotype is quite variable, the neuropathologic and biochemical characteristics of the lesions account for neurodegenerative processes unmistakably of Alzheimer nature. (Source: Neurology)...
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An Alzheimer disease presenilin mutation, syndrome diversity, and a shrinking world
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12 Ways To Judge Alzheimer's Risk
Asking the right questions can help you know who has the biggest chance of developing Alzheimer's disease. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)...
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Health Headlines: Keeping an Eye on Dementia, Aspirin and Heart Health, Chocolate and Stroke Prevention, Exercising Teens
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POSTED 03/08/2010 at 07:31 AM --
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Technology And Positive Attitudes Improving Older People's Lives
The population of the UK is ageing. Sixteen per cent of the UK population is 65 or older, and for the first time, there are more people over the age of 65 than there are under the age of 18. This raises a lot of questions on issues such as pension provision, health care and wellbeing... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)...
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Major Depression More Than Doubles Risk Of Dementia Among Adults With Diabetes
Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dementia is the progressive decline of thinking and reasoning abilities. These can include memory loss, difficulty with basic math, wandering, living in the past, personality changes, and not recognizing familiar people. "Diabetes alone has shown to be a risk factor for dementia, as has major depression by itself," noted the lead author of the study, Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
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