Three questions of Alzheimer's disease

Xinhua News Agency, Harbin, September 21 (Reporter Yang Siqi, Dai Jinyu) September 21 is the 29th World Alzheimer's Day. According to the latest news of the National Health and Health Commission, Alzheimer's disease is the most important type of dementia. About 15 million dementia patients in my country 60 and above, of which 10 million are Alzheimer's patients. Related studies have shown that Alzheimer's disease has become a dangerous "killer" lurking in the elderly group.

What is Alzheimer's disease? A dementia

"Many people confuse Alzheimer's disease with Alzheimer's disease. In fact, Alzheimer's disease is only the most common type of dementia, accounting for 50%to 70%of all cases." Wu Yun, deputy director and professor of the Sixth Internal Medicine, said that Alzheimer's disease is hidden and is a chronic transgender disease.

When people go to age, they will move slowly and have decreased their thinking ability, which seems to be a social consensus. But related scholars believe that dementia is not a normal manifestation of aging. Most of the symptoms of patients with Alzheimer's disease are recent memory loss, and some patients have manifested as language barriers, visual space disorders, and abnormal mild spiritual behavior.

Chen Shanquan, a post -doctoral school at the University of Cambridge University, said that patients have developed to the medium -term symptoms obvious, such as forgetting what happened recently and the names of the people around them, spiritual stubbornness, and repeated questions. In advanced patients, patients are almost dependent on others' care, and their lives cannot be taken care of themselves. They will have serious memory disorders, and may even have offensive behaviors.

Why is Alzheimer's disease? Aging is one of the incentives

The interviewees introduced that although age is the main influencing factor of dementia, its onset is gradually younger.

Some experts believe that the most important cause of Alzheimer's disease is brain aging. "Simply put, neuron cells responsible for cognitive behavior gradually degenerate, and cell degeneration necrosis reaches more than 50%. More than the human body's own compensation capacity will begin to appear symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia." Wu Yun said.

The report of the medical magazine "Liu Ye Dao" states that a variety of controllable factors can have an important impact on dementia, such as the most important controllable risk factors in the middle age include hypertension, overweight, alcoholism, trauma, hearing damage, etc. 60 Senior years older are subject to low social, depression, no exercise, smoking, diabetes, etc.

Related studies have shown that the early identification of Alzheimer's disease is very critical. Although most patients are difficult to reverse, early intervention can delay the course of the disease, improve the quality of life, and even reduce the risk of death caused by dementia.

"The general family members found that the illness was already medium -weight. Once people over the age of 60 have abnormal cognition and mental behavior, such as decreased memory, or sudden changes in personality behavior, emotional instability, depression or anxiety tendency to seek medical treatment as soon as possible." Wu Yun said.

What should I do? Prevention in advance is the key

In recent years, my country has carried out a lot of work on the social prevention mission of Alzheimer's disease, such as strengthening knowledge propaganda, organizational prevention intervention, and early screening, etc., and made certain progress.

Experts suggest that to prevent Alzheimer's disease, we must first maintain good living habits. Chen Xi, a part -time professor of the Global Healthy Development Research Institute of Peking University, said that there is evidence that various fruits, vegetables, grains, and low red meat and low sugar diet can help reduce the risk of dementia.

"When making green leafy vegetables, avoid excessive cooking, and usually pay attention to supplementing folic acid." Wu Yun suggested that the elderly should adhere to the regular exercise, such as doing exercise such as exercise, dancing, training Tai Chi, and eight sections. Household chores, maintain social habits, and develop hobbies.

In terms of treatment, in addition to drug intervention, it also includes music therapy and art therapy. "Patients must be patient, take them more for walking, bask in the sun, and soothe their emotions." Wu Yun said that dementia often has a variety of symptoms in the later period, and the family's care can delay the development of the disease.

"With the continuous development of medical technology, many new drugs are continuously developing, and the whole society's understanding and attention of Alzheimer's disease has gradually deepened. Both patients and relatives must have hope." Wu Yun said.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

【Edit: Yao Hao】

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