Vascular aging plays an important role in the mortality of the elderly, but vascular aging can be dependent on other factors such as diseases. Various diseases such as Alzheimer, diabetes, thalassemia, and other diseases affect the mechanisms of vascular aging. It will harm the recovery process of these patients. There are methods for measuring vascular aging such as instrumental measurements a...

16 November 2006. Everyone with even a passing interest in Alzheimer disease has seen a sepia-toned photograph of its namesake like the one on last week’s cover of Science magazine. A fatherly, pensive man with a mustache, sometimes a cigar, photographed from his right side and often with hands folded in his lap as was customary for sitting portraits at the time. But there is much more to Alois...

BACKGROUND The metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, which have been linked to Alzheimer disease. However, a link between Alzheimer disease and the metabolic syndrome has not yet been established. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer disease. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Case-control study of 50 consecutive pa...

See related article, pages 345–350. Stroke and Alzheimer disease are major public health burdens that account for substantial disability and extensive cost.1,2 In addition, these diseases currently tie as the third most common cause of death in the United States,3 and both will become more important as life expectancy increases. Annually, 15 million people worldwide experience a stroke, of whic...

many studies indicate that oxidative stress is involved in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases. oxidative stress can induce neuronal damages, modulate intracellular signaling and ultimately leads to neuronal death by apoptosis or necrosis. to review antioxidants preventive effects on oxidative stress and neurodegenerative diseases we accumulated data from international medical jou...

Neurodegenerative diseases are the hereditary and sporadic diseases which are characterized by progressive neuronal loss of the nervous system and are emerging as the leading cause of death, disabilities, and a socioeconomic burden due to an increase in life expectancy. There are many neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, disease, amyotrophic lateral...

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disturbance characterized by a progressive dementia. It is the very costly disease in the today’s society & characterized by cognitive decline, cerebral as well as behavioral action disturbance. Because of this, the early stage of the Alzheimer’s disease is detected, as it assists the patients & also his relative to take precautionary measures. As electroencephalo...