PHAR 562 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Prostate Cancer, Biomarker, Dementia
12 Feb 2020
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What are the most promising clinical trials? the disease. A statistical resource for us data related to ad, includes: Caused by damage to neurons & loss of synapses neurons can no longer function. People in the final stages of the disease are bed-bound & require around-the-clock care. Age is the most important risk factor. In 2050: the majority of cases are people aged 85+, because life expectancy is increasing. Every second newborn child: >100 years life expectancy (stone age life expectancy was. Highest life expectancy increased by 2. 5 years per decade. A healthy adult brain has about 100 billion neurons, about 100 trillion synapses: the cellular basis of memories, thoughts, sensations, emotions, movements, skills: ad interferes with the proper functioning of neurons & synapses. About half of the ad cases have evidence of pathologic changes related to other dementias ie. mixed dementia: e. g. 8% of all dementia cases are caused by pd.
