Critique on Alzheimer`s Disease Article

What Causes Alzheimer 's Disease

The article What Causes Alzheimer 's Disease ' addresses leads from genetic research , information from population studies along with some additional further research . The article discusses how Alzheimer 's disease is a rather complex disease in that it is probably not a single dis with a single cause (What , 2002 . Findings now indicate that things such as variation in symptoms , rates of progression , and neurochemical abnormalities are suggesting to researchers and scientists that Alzheimer 's has subtypes of the disease

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heredity seems to play a major factor in a small number of cases however it seems to play a very small or no role at all in most cases . Ten percent of the Alzheimer 's cases are early-onset which means it strikes before age 50

This article was worth reading because of the new findings in the area of Alzheimer 's . I found the following areas of information especially interesting in this article : how some researchers believe Alzheimer 's may result from an immunologic defect , how years of depression often precede Alzheimer 's , how a disproportionate number of people who develop Alzheimer 's are poorly educated and that women who take estrogen over time seem less likely to develop Alzheimer 's

However , as far as methods it wasn 't really applicable here Although I suppose one can say since dementia pugilistics or boxers dementia is caused by repeated blows to the head , this would be preventable and in that studies suggest that women who take estrogen over time are less likely to develop Alzheimer 's (What , 2002 ) that may be considered a possible method or link . Otherwise , Alzheimer 's Disease is more of an area of making the best of one 's genetics than providing new methods or cures (2002 . What Causes Alzheimer 's Disease . A Harvard Health Publications Special

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