Up to 40 percent of Alzheimer’s cases can be prevented by adopting a healthier lifestyle and avoiding risk factors. These include population-wide influences such as access to education and levels of air pollution, as well as individual factors such as lack of exercise, smoking, obesity and high blood pressure.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. It is a neurodegenerative disease in which specific neuropathological changes in the brain lead to progressive loss of neurons and their connections. There are a total of “twelve major risk factors,” reported dementia researcher Elisabeth Stögmann of MedUni’s Department of Neurology.
But not only physical influences increase the risk of illness. “It has been known for some time that there is a link between social isolation and dementia,” says Stögmann.
“We now know that the accumulation of plaques in the brain begins ten to twenty years before the appearance of obvious clinical symptoms,” explains Stögmann. cognitive impairment of particular concern.” Screening methods that can exclude or confirm a pathological cognitive decline with a high degree of certainty are of great importance.
Early diagnosis is also important for appropriate care. September 21 is World Alzheimer’s Day.
Source: Krone
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