Vaskulární a psychosociální rizikové faktory Alzheimerovy choroby

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Title in English Vascular and psychosocial risk factor of Alzheimer's disease
Authors

JANA Povová AMBROZ Petr TOMÁŠKOVÁ Hana BAR M. ŠERÝ Omar ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ J. VAŘECHOVÁ Kateřina JANOUT Vladimír

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Prakticky Lekar
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Field Physiology
Keywords dementia; Alzheimer's disease; risk factors
Description Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. It is a degenerative incurable terminal disease. AD affects a high percentage of persons all over the world. Aetiology is still unknown. Numerous etiological factors of AD have already been discovered. Pilot evaluation of 307 cases and 96 controls from mental hospitals in project "Epidemiology and genetic of Alzheimer's disease" provided following results. The questionnaires contain questions about identification, education, lifestyle, vascular risk factors, hobbies, occupation, incidence of the disease in the family, results of Minimental State Examination (MMSE). Though there are the first results from pilot part of study, some questions are presented. Results suggest, that persons with AD have often a cardiovascular disease and head injury in history. Conversely they did not have diabetes mellitus, hypertension and cerebrovascular disease.
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