New report: Brain diseases such as dementia affecting more people under 55 than ever before

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New report: Brain diseases such as dementia affecting more people under 55 than ever before

Brain diseases such as dementia affecting more people under 55 than ever before

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Stone Hearth News

Professor Colin Pritchard’s latest research published in Public Health Journal has found that the sharp rise of dementia and other neurological deaths in people under 74 cannot be put down to the fact that we are living longer – the rise is because a higher proportion of old people are being affected by such conditions, and what is really alarming, it is starting earlier and affecting people under 55 years.

Of the 10 biggest Western countries the USA had the worst increase in all neurological deaths, men up 66% and women 92% between 1979-2010. The UK was 4th highest, men up 32% and women 48%. In terms of numbers of deaths, in the UK, it was 4,500 and now 6,500, in the USA it was 14,500 now more than 28,500 deaths!

SNIP

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