PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16 (UPI) — Increasingly, Alzheimer’s patients learn they have the disease before symptoms affect daily functioning, but may not know how to react, researchers say.
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Policies needed for earlier Alzheimer’s
Since there is no treatment, doctors wonder if they should tell people, years earlier, that they have the disease, or a good chance of getting it.
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Early Alzheimer’s Detection, but When to Tell the Patient?
Alzheimer’s is a fatal disease in which brain cells are progressively destroyed, and the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that every 70 seconds, someone develops the disease. An estimated 5.3 million Americans have the disease, and it’s the nation’s seventh-leading cause of death.
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