Original title: Video | my country’s Alzheimer’s disease patients exceed 10 million, ranking first in the world
According to surveys, there are more than 10 million Alzheimer’s disease patients in my country, ranking first in the world, and there are 300,000 new cases each year, which is expected to exceed 40 million by 2050. Although the society’s awareness of Alzheimer’s disease has increased, the rate of consultation with the disease is still very low. So, how can Alzheimer’s disease be detected early and actively treated?
Guo Qihao, director of the Department of Geriatrics at the Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, said, for example, where I can’t find the things at home, the passbook is not found, the password is forgotten, especially the relatives and friends are here, and the names can’t be called, etc. We should begin to pay attention to the performance of memory decline, whether he will have the possibility of Alzheimer’s disease.
Experts remind that once patients and their families notice similar symptoms, they should actively seek medical treatment. In order to make the diagnosis more accurate, pre-diagnosis evaluation is particularly critical. At present, the Sixth City Hospital has set up a special neuropsychological assessment room, and is equipped with a full-time assessor to conduct pre-diagnosis assessment of patients. Although the disease process at this stage is still irreversible, major pharmaceutical companies are developing new drugs, hoping to act on the amyloid plaques that cause diseases in the brain, just like sweeping garbage, removing the factors that cause disease.
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