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Alzheimer’s Disease. By:IThomas and ACollins. What is Alzheimer’s Disease?. Alzheimer’s disease is the loss of memory in the brain. Symptoms. Forgetfulness Mild Confusion Impacts your speech Write coherently Judgment Problem Solving. How is it Diagnosed?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Alzheimer’s DiseaseBy:IThomas and ACollins
What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
Alzheimer’s disease is the loss of memory in the brain.
Symptoms
Forgetfulness Mild Confusion Impacts your speech Write coherently Judgment Problem Solving
How is it Diagnosed?
Can be diagnosed after death when an autopsy of the brain in performed.
The patient being diagnosed will get asked several questions by the doctor
Will get: laboratory, urine, blood test, and spinal fluid samples
Causes
Scientist believe it is unlikely to identify the single cause of this disease.
It is a combination of inter-relater factors including genetic factors that are passes along family lines.
Lifestyle Factors
Prevention
Vitamin E Antioxidant Donepezil
Treatment Options?
There are currently no treatments for Alzheimer's disease, but there are medications to help control the symptoms.
Statistics
14 million Americans will have AD by the middle of the next century, unless a cure or prevention is found.
Approximately 4 million Americans have AD Alzheimer's disease is the third most expensive disease
in the US after heart disease and cancer One in ten persons over 65 and nearly half of those 85
have AD
Citations Scarmeas N, et al. Physical activity, diet, and risk of
Alzheimer disease. JAMA. 2009;302:627 What is Alzheimer's? Alzheimer's Association.
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp. Accessed Nov. 4, 2010.
Prevention. Alzheimer's Association. http://www.alz.org/research/science/alzheimers_prevention_and_risk.asp. Accessed Oct. 31, 2010.