HSS 4102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hypertension, Apolipoprotein E, Amnesia
11 Dec 2017
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Alzheimer"s disease is an irreversible progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. There are two types of alzheimer"s early-onset and late-onset. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning thinking, remembering, and reasoning and behavioral abilities, to. In most people with alzheimer"s, symptoms first appear after age 60. It is the most common cause of dementia among older people. such an extent that it interferes with a person"s daily life and activities. Not exercising does not send blood/oxygen to places in the body that don"t usually get a lot. Exercise helps you think and keeps your cognitive skills working better. Signs first appear in a person"s mid-60s. May involve a gene called apoe e4. Apoe e4 is found in ldls and hdls. Most people who have ad don"t remember that they have it and so they aren"t suffering but their family is. Signs first appear between a person"s 30s and mid-60s.
