Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast

Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by robbiep on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:39PM (#6052980)

This is great news. 60% of Dementia is due to Alzheimers whilst remaining 40% is roughly split between Vascular dementia (dementia due to mini-strokes) and Dementia with lewy bodies (a histopathological finding).

Unfortunately Alzheimers is largely a pathological diagnosis (ie. it requires a brain biopsy usually post mortem to diagnose) and I didn't dig up the british study this is largely taken from to see where they thought the decline was coming from but it is very good news and should be welcomed!

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by pstuart on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:15PM (#6055513)

And possible good news about Alzheimers:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-a...

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by ekianjo on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:51AM (#6056153)

This theory that Al Zheimer is due to a form of Diabetes does not have much support from the key thought leaders currently. [Disclaimer: I worked on Al Zheimer]. For all we know, it may be a combination of several factors and not a single one.

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by seszett on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:46AM (#6056441)

Just for your information then, "Alzheimer" is a simple name, not a compound one and "Al" here is not a prefix (if anything, it should be broken down into "alz heimer").

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by juskrey on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:40AM (#6056421)

Please recall what "key thought leaders" were thinking about cholesterol for previous 50 years.

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by ekianjo on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:42AM (#6056429)

I am not saying they are right. I was just adding comments on what the experts in the field are thinking about. Besides, there are some clinical trials ongoing to treat "Brain Diabetes" as a way to fight Al Zheimer but nobody expects much from them, including investors. It's probably not that simple.

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by juskrey on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @07:03AM (#6057011)

From "investors" word, I assume they are trying to treat it by adding medications? What about removing carbs? Though, investors would be really disappointed..

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by ekianjo on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @08:30AM (#6057248)

"Removing carbs"... talk about pseudo-science...

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by gambogi on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @08:53AM (#6057334)

Yeah because dietary modification is no way to treat a disease [1] coughPKUcough

[1]- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria#Treatment

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by juskrey on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:48AM (#6057614)

Oh yeah, and diabetes also? No sales - no science? Looong way to go..

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by nodata on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @04:43AM (#6056747)

Why are you spelling it like that?

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Re:Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast by ekianjo on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @05:38AM (#6056878)

So that people ask questions :) No, simple mistake. But I can't edit my post anymore.

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