M.D.'s Believe Alzheimer's is a Killer

A recent study reports that Alzheimer's is not only responsible for the death of some 500,000 people each year, but it is also the third leading cause of death (except when figuring in the death rate from properly and improperly prescribed medication) in this country.  The death rate attributed to this disease is six-fold of what it was thought to be, just a few years ago.

The significance of this new information is that it means that Alzheimer's doesn't just affect the memory portion of the brain...it must also be associated with  systemic and catastrophic systems' failure.  So far, there is no correlation between memory failure and death that I have read about in the literature.  I'm certain that this finding will encourage researchers to study about and try to find out about what neurological connections there are between this memory-depleting condition and its associated mortality.

It may be that since Alzheimer's is a progressive condition and that it first presents in older people, that by the time it has caused full memory loss, people may simply be dying because their bodies have deteriorated from old age.  Or, the aging process is accelerated because of the memory loss.  I'm certain that we all would like answers to those and other questions we may have concerning this horrible disease.

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