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Originally posted by Saerlaith
Could genetically modified foods have something to do with it?
Originally posted by soficrow
...now the University of Pennsylvania Alzheimer's Disease Center has established an arm for �Developing Practical Guidelines for Voting by Persons with Dementia.� The guidelines look beyond dementia to other mental disorders and competencies.
Global Bill for Alzheimer's Nears Quarter-Trillion Dollars
The estimated total worldwide cost of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia now tops $248 billion U.S annually, researchers said Sunday.
That estimate, based on a worldwide prevalence estimate of nearly 28 million people with Alzheimer's and dementia, includes a newly determined figure of $92 billion for informal care costs. That amount was combined with an earlier estimate of $156 billion earmarked for direct care costs.
Informal care refers to patient care provided at no cost, usually by family members and friends. Direct (or formal) care refers to paid professional health care services, such as treatment, ongoing daily care, and housing. ..."Dementia care is a mix of professional care and family care giving, and this mix is not uniform throughout the world," researcher Dr. Anders Wimo, of the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center and Aging Research Center at Karolinska Institute, said in a prepared statement. ..."Nevertheless, it is obvious that worldwide costs are substantial, and the expected increase of elderly people, especially the anticipated rapid increase in developing countries, presents a great challenge for social and health care systems," he added.
Studies Link Diabetes to Risk of Alzheimer’s
Several new studies suggest that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, adding to a store of evidence that links the disorders. The studies involve only Type 2 diabetes, the most common type, which is usually related to obesity. ...The connection raises an ominous prospect: that increases in diabetes, a major concern in the United States and worldwide, may worsen the rising toll from Alzheimer’s. The findings also add dementia to the cloud of threats that already hang over people with diabetes, including heart disease, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and amputations.
“Alzheimer’s is going to swamp the health-care system,” said Dr. John C. Morris, a neurology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and an advisor to the Alzheimer’s Association. ...In the past decade, several large studies found that, compared to healthy people of the same age and sex, those with Type 2 diabetes were twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s. The reason is not known, but researchers initially suspected that cardiovascular problems caused by diabetes might contribute to dementia by blocking blood flow to the brain or causing strokes.
More recently, though, scientists have begun to think that the diseases are connected in other ways as well. In both, destructive deposits of amyloid, a type of protein, build up: in the brain in Alzheimer’s, in the pancreas in Type 2 diabetes. ...About 20 million people in the United States have Type 2 diabetes. The number has doubled in the past two decades. Another 41 million are “pre-diabetic,” with blood sugar rising toward the diabetic level. Diabetes rates are expected to increase because rates of obesity are rising, and epidemiologists predict that one in three American children born in 2000 will eventually develop Type 2.
Worldwide, diabetes is also on the rise, increasing to 230 million cases from 30 million in the past 20 years.
Originally posted by thermopolis
err, I must agree with sofi's premise here. There is so significant evidence to support FMD as an outbreak from a manmade mistake. There is much data of prion infection.
As for the voting rights.........There are many whom should not be allowed to vote because they are insane.........yer about 50%