L’Alzheimer you can anticipate. How? Paying attention to some particular alarm bells. Depression, anxiety, constipation, loss of hearing, weight and memory, cervical osteoarthritis, stress adaptation disorders, fatigue and malaise, falls are all symptoms that herald the risk of having the disease. The discovery on the warning signs comes from the study of some French researchers who have observed the onset of these pathologies in the previous 15 years the diagnosis of dementia thanks to an original methodology.
The research, published in The Lancet Digital Healthhe considered 10 associated pathologies Alzheimer’s disease present in a statistically significant manner already ten years before the diagnosis of the disease. More specifically, the scientists based themselves on two anonymous databases relating to general medicine patients in France and the United Kingdom and extracted the cases of dementia (20,000 in each country) and then verified the link between the appearance of Alzheimer’s and 123 pathologies, reaching up to 15 years before diagnosis.
With the impossibility at least at the time of having treatments, researchers aim for prevention. For this the goal is develop a risk score to find out who are most likely to develop dementia so they can benefit from appropriate surveillance.
