Scientists from the University of Copenhagen conducted one of the most extensive and exciting research in the field of dementia syndrome. Now they give an accurate forecast of the risk of developing the disease for 10 years before his actual diagnosis. And this forecast depends on the patient's age, sex, and general ApoE gene variation. This experiment makes it quite accurately identify individuals at risk for early prevention profile.
In the world of dementia - one of the main causes of disability an elderly man. And effective treatment of this syndrome yet. Reducing the risk of age related dementia - this is the only opportunity to delay, if not prevent the development of disease. Who had a chance to advance to identify people with a really high rate of occurrence of dementia in the future. So tell them, you run the risk, it is necessary to do everything possible to prevent the disease win. And in the reserve for potential patients have as much as 10 years!
Important:Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) - a key protein of cholesterol metabolism and brain removal of amyloid protein. And ApoE variation of fundamental importance for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Today it is established: a third of all cases of dementia can be prevented by ensuring control of this indicator, as well as:
- treated / modified hypertension and diabetes;
- give up smoking;
- do not overeat;
- do not worry;
- to protect the ear or correct it using special devices.
Identification of individuals at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease will allow them to send to the target prevention, and this, in turn, will prevent or significantly delay the onset of dementia.
Danish researchers, led by Professor Ruth Fricke-Schmidt during the experiment examined data on 104,537 volunteers and found that the identification of risk groups, you can use a combination of sex, age and genetic variations of ApoE.
So, for the development of dementia, there is:
- 7% risk for women and 6% - for men 60 years of age;
- 16% and 12%, respectively, for men and women 70 years of age;
- 24% and 19% for women and men 80 years and older.
However, the results of the experiment can not be generalized - they are limited because only Europeans participated research, and only the white race. However, these results still allow identification of individuals at high risk for this disease on the basis of the above-described variations for intervention to prevention.
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