background: alzheimer’s disease (ad) is the most common type of dementia. demonstrating the modifiable risk factors of ad can help to plan for prevention of this disease. the aim of the current review was to characterize modifiable cardiovascular risk factors of ad using existing data and determine their contribution in ad development in iran and the world. methods: the systematic search was do...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Manually drawn VOI-based analysis shows a decrease in magnetization transfer ratio in the hippocampus of patients with Alzheimer disease. We investigated with whole-brain voxelwise analysis the regional changes of the magnetization transfer ratio in patients with mild Alzheimer disease and patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty pa...

CONTEXT Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. In regards to the world's aging population, control and treatment of AD will be one of the major concerns of global public health in the next century. Alzheimer disease was not mentioned with the same phrase or its equivalent in traditional medical texts. The main of present paper was to investigate symptoms and causes of alzh...

Because diagnostic criteria for normal pressure hydrocephalus have not been clearly determined, it is often difficult to differentiate patients with this potentially treatable condition from those with Alzheimer-type dementia. We have studied three patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus, 17 patients with Alzheimer-type dementia, and seven healthy elderly controls using positron emission to...

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To date, nearly 35.6 million people world wide live with dementia, and the situation is going to get worse by 2050 with 115.4 million cases.(1) In the western world, the prevalence for dementia in people over the age of 60 is greater than 5% and two thirds are due to Alzheimer disease,(2) (-) (5) the most common form of dementias.   Alzheimer disease (AD), first described as "presenile dementi...

Emerging evidence suggests a remarkable convergence of inflammatory mechanisms in the etiology of cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer disease. A broad set of NSAIDs and statins used to reduce the risk of vascular occlusion and to slow atherogensis may also be protective for Alzheimer disease. Elevated blood levels of C-reactive protein are risk factors for cardiovascular disease and possibly f...

Alzheimer disease is the most prevalent form of dementia globally and is characterized premortem by a gradual memory loss and deterioration of higher cognitive functions and postmortem by neuritic plaques containing amyloid ß peptide and neurofibrillary tangles containing phospho-tau protein. Glutamate is the most abundant neurotransmitter in the brain and is essential to memory formation throu...

Objetivo: Determinar los beneficios de la musicoterapia como alternativa tratamiento para el reenlentecimiento síntomas en pacientes diagnosticados con Alzheimer, Hospital General IESS Ambato. Método: Se utilizó Historia Clínica, población estuvo conformada por 29 Alzheimer. Conclusión: La constituye una terapia no farmacológica eficaz determinados cognitivos, emocionales y conductuales enferme...

Dementia is defined by acquired, progressive impairment in two or more cognitive areas (for example, frontal executive function, mood, or memory) that is severe enough to render a person dependent on others. Dementia is a leading cause of disability among older adult patients; Alzheimer disease is the most common etiology. The prevalence of Alzheimer disease is approximately 2% among persons 60...