Alzheimers kills 500,000 a year, study finds cnn.it/P1CzWh Now, a study of aging patients suggests its true toll may top half a million lives a year -- a figure that would put Alzheimers just below heart disease and cancer on the list of Americas top killers. The incurable, degenerative brain disease was blamed for 83,000-plus U.S. fatalities in 2010, making it the sixth-leading cause of death that year. But its true toll may be as much as six times that, said Bryan James, an epidemiologist at the Rush Alzheimers Disease Center in Chicago. Death certificates are well known to underreport deaths from Alzheimers and other types of dementia, said James, the lead author of the study published Wednesday. The more immediate causes of death, such as pneumonia or heart attack, are usually listed, and the underlying causes of death are usually left off. The eight-year study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Neurology, followed more than 2,500 people over 65. Of those, nearly a quarter developed Alzheimers, and the disease was the cause of death in about 400 people, James said. A prince had once wrote a poem decades ago which refers to Alzheimers as a grace loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool It is titled The Grace Of Disremembering? loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:54:09 +0000
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