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Alzheimers
Title: Alzheimers
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 575 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Alzheimers
Alzheimer’s is a common, progressive, and degenerative disease. It causes the loss of memory and other cognitive functions. Dementia occurs often with patients sixty-five and older. This is the gradual loss of mental function.
People with Alzheimer’s have an abnormal deposit of beta amyloid. A combination of this protein and destroyed nerve cells causes plaque. Tangles of nerve fibers are then formed. The elimination of nerve cell connection damages pathways to the brain. …showed first 75 words of 575 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 575 total…of those over eighty have Alzheimer’s disease.
· An average person with Alzheimer’s will live eight years after being diagnosed, and as many as twenty years or more
· Alzheimer’s disease costs the U.S. at least 0 billion a year. This is so because neither Medicare nor health insurance covers it
· Half of all nursing home patients suffer from Alzheimer’s or a dementia
· The federal government spent 6 million for Alzheimer’s disease in 2000
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