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Alzheimer's Disease Affects 'Twice As Many People' As Experts Thought (nypost.com)
schwit1 shares a report from the New York Post: In the U.S., 5.8 million people are living with the debilitating condition, according to the Alzheimer's Association, and that number is projected to rise to nearly 14 million by 2050. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota believe, however, that many more people are probably already living with it without having a formal diagnosis. They've been using brain imaging to give a definite answer as to how many people are affected. Tests on 2,500 people have shown that double the number of people have telltale signs of protein plaques and tangles in the brain -- markers of Alzheimer's disease -- even if they're not experiencing dementia. "The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is all based on clinical assessment. It's just based on the question 'Do you have dementia?'" Dr. Jack Clifford, the Alexander Family professor of Alzheimer's disease research at the Mayo Clinic, told The Telegraph. "Classically defined Alzheimer's undercounts people who have the pathology but do not have symptoms. A lot more people have the disease but do not have symptoms, just like a lot more people have hypertension than have had a stroke, or a lot more people have diabetes than people who have gone blind."
What? How could they make a mistake like that, sounds like the experts have Alzheimerâ(TM)s too.
If you can live with the disease biological marker and without the disease, it means the biological marker does not tells us much about the disease.
not really
Thr thought that has never occurred to anyone ever. Lack of diagnosis. YEEEAAAAH.
Next "story" plz
if you literally can't be bothered to get a diagnosis now, why would the doctor care later?
Why are alzheimers and dementia being conflated here?
and insulin resistance are main factors for causing this disease. Has the US society any defense against this onslaught of care cases?
Nope!
Uh ... I can say for a fact that clinical assessment of dementia is not based on asking people "do you have dementia?" No one does that and you'd lose your license for doing that. Prevalence might be estimated sometimes that way but not in any rigorous studies.
There's a continuum of functioning from mild cognitive difficulties to full-blown advanced neurodegenerative disease. This is one reason why major and mild NCI was introduced into the DSM-5, although it doesn't solve the issue completely.
Setting up and taking down a strawman is what this sounds like.
Only defense is to reduce carb intake to about 30%, which is half what so-called "healthy" Americans eat. Most obese people probably ate 80% carbs to get there. I did.
Going below 30% carbs for more than a year could be unhealthy for some people. Just look at Bob Harper; heart attack at age 52. He was doing the low carb, plenty of protein diet before. Now he's doing the low carb, plant-based diet with poultry, fish and eggs for protein. No red meat. He also reduced the extreme intensity of his crossfit workouts. He still does crossfit.
Of course, there are always exceptions for every advice/diet. I know obese people who have been obese since childhood who eat carbs only from normal veggies and avoid it from grains, rice, and starches, so there are some people for which avoiding carbs doesn't help.
OTOH, if I keep all carbs below 30%, I loose a little weight every week and my mind seems much sharper. Since switching to mostly plant-based diet, limited carbs, I'm never hungry and still get to choose when I eat, just like people on a keto diet. I know my mind feeling sharper isn't related to caffeine, since I stopped using that drug over a decade ago.
But I couldn't be sure
It's only news if we make them all President.
Seems to me if a theorized-to-be telltale sign of Alzheimer's isnt present in a staggering number of people that are specifically not diagnosed with Alzheimer's, then maybe it isnt such a telltale sign after all.
"His name was James Damore."
[fiddles with earpiece]
Source of error found: it seems they counted them, forgot they'd done it, and then counted them again.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
When the satanic Thatcher came to power in the UK, one of her first deeds was to reverse farming protocols that Humanity had followed for THOUSANDS of years. This evil slag thusly gave the world 'mad cow' disease- moving a deadly prion into much of the Earth's beef livestock.
CJD/mad cow got a lot of publicity early on, since a tiny number of young people had unfortunate genetics that meant they suffered massive prion brain deterioration from eating beef. This caused massive concern amongst the scientific community - thinking that this was the beginning of an epidemic. Twenty years later the people tracking this problem concluded the general Human population had a genetic make-up that delayed the brain damaging effect of the prion until 'old age'. But once enough time had elapsed, there would be a massive increase in 'dementia' type events in Humans in their 60s and older- the long tail of Thatcher's mad cow 'gift' to Humanity.
As you may know, the prion infection can only be confirmed by a post mortem- the brain damage caused by the prion in the elderly is rarely as 'extreme' as those early cases of CJD in the young. This serves the governments of the Earth perfectly, since their plan was to fold CJD cases into pre-existing forms of senility, and to allow the sheeple to come to an erroneous conclusion- namely that their brain damaged elderly relative is suffering from any condition BUT CJD.
Why? Because CJD implies (correctly) horrific malfeasnce by governments and their agencies that are supposed to protect us. And today the same governments are saying "trust us" over issues of population mass drugging policies, and Thatcher like policies of changing farming protocols in the name of 'modern genetic science'.
Just like Slashdot commands you to 'trust' the mainstream news outlets that all co-ordinated WMD in Iraq lies on behalf of Humanity's worst living war criminal- Tony Blair.
At least the cause of mad cow was not covered up, unlike the similar story of AIDS (caused when vaccination protocols were ignored, and an oral polio vaccine was created from monkeys, moving the virus the monkeys had carried for thousands of years into the Human population of much of Africa). Heaven and earth has been moved to cover up the scientific disaster that caused AIDS. All in the name of keeping the sheeple 'trusting' the vaccination 'experts'.
Of course before the OPV in Africa spread AIDS, vaccinations had been responsible for explosions of various forms of cancer- because it was originally impossible to filter out cancer cause viruses from vaccinations used up until the 1960s.
When governments or their 'experts' say "trust us", that is exactly the moment to withdraw any and all trust.
And it NEVER stops. Food agencies in the UK were supposed to be the most advanced on the planet- monitoring the quality of ALL meat sold for Human consumption with sophisticated lab tests. And then it was revealed that most processed 'beef' in the UK was actually HORSE meat- the state-of-the-art government labs just hadn't noticed.
Why do you think foul outlets like Slashdot work so hard pushing the statist message that govenments and their agencies are more trustworth than any other source? Liars, cheats and monsters need their cheerleaders.
Alzheimer's Disease affects twice as many Presidents as experts thought.
Hook up people on crap food inducing diabetes, obesity and lowering mental performance, ensuring you remain the top doggie in doggie eat doggie land. Keep normal food overpriced so 'little people' can't buy it. Hmm, this sounds awfully familiar. Where could it be?
"Scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota believe, however, that many more people are probably ALREADY LIVING with it without having a formal diagnosis."
Seems to me if a theorized-to-be telltale sign of Alzheimer's isnt present in a staggering number of people that are specifically not diagnosed with Alzheimer's,
then it maybe a physical manifestation of the cognitive by-products of personality disorders from the production of peptides in the brain.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
When Donald Trump kept talking about the "oranges" of the Mueller report (instead of origins), that seems like classic dementia to me. Trump chose a word which sounded like the correct word, but which did not make sense at all in the context of what he was trying to say. Because of the context, what Trump said came across as humorous.
This fits a lot with the friends I have had who were stricken with dementia. They would say things like that all the time. I would correct them, and they would realize the mistake.
Dementia could also explain why Trump keeps saying his father was born in Germany when it was really his grandfather who was born there. One of my friends kept a list in his wallet of all the major years of his life. So when I would ask him when he graduated from college, he would pull out the list and tell me. People with dementia get basic facts from their life wrong, which would not happen with people who do not have dementia.
You getting lazy?
One manifestation of Alzheimer's develops from Spirochaete infection of the brain.
READ THIS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139345/
Well, Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is in Rochester and is surrounded by a minimum of 100 miles in every direction by farm country.
And believe me, it's not a surprise that twice as many of those old farmers have Alzheimer's even if it hasn't been formally diagnosed than previously thought.