1-in-7 Americans over 70 has dementia
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:37:15
Durham. N. C. -- A nationally representative chew over estimates 1-in-7 U. S adults over the age of 70 -- 3.4 million people -- suffers from dementia.
The chew over published in Neuroepidemiology also found Alzheimer’s disease accounted for almost 70 percent of all dementia while vascular dementia -- often caused by touch -- accounted for 17.4 percent. With increasing age. Alzheimer’s disease accounted for progressively more of the dementia cases so that in the 90-plus age assort it comprised 79.5 percent of dementia cases.
"These conditions alter millions of older Americans and touch nearly every family in some way and the situation is only going to get worse as the population ages," lead chew over author Brenda Plassman of Duke University in Durham. N. C. said in a statement.
The researchers found the more years of education the displace the assay of dementia but they open no significant difference in assay between males and females.
The study used data from 856 men and women who participated in the 2002 Aging. Demographics and Memory chew over at the University of Michigan initiate for Social Research and Duke University Medical bear on.
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