The morbidity of China's senile dementia rises The cost exceeds a million to cure the disease

The morbidity of China's senile dementia rises The cost exceeds a million to cure the disease
Senile dementia is a common old disease, the morbidity is rising constantly in recent years. According to the incomplete statistics, China's ill number is more than 6 million - 8 million, the cost is about 1,120,000 yuan that average each patient cures the disease. This edition will introduce some preventive treatment knowledge to you successively. --It is commonly called as senile dementia that the editor Alzheimer is ill, a kind of neural sex change disease, mainly influence the function of the brain, account for above the old age dull-witted disease 65%. Cognition of brain in order to going on and regression of clinical manifestation, discerning the function obstacle as the characteristic, memory reduces and follows individual character and behavioral change, it is dull-witted to develop into finally. Alzheimer's disease has two great pathologic characteristics: First, form a large amount of one kind of albumens of starch not dissolved outside the cells of cerebral cortex and sea horse to deposit, called senile plaque; Second, form nerve fibre tangles in the neuronal cells of cerebral cortex and sea horse, later, inflammation of colloid cells reacted and the neuronal death happened in succession. This disease is disease that a need of consuming a large number of financial resources, material resources and manpower attends to, nurses and cares for. Predicted and counts global disease according to one, was 315 billion dollars that it is consumed that global Alzheimer was ill in 2005, the consumption of diabetes was 56 billion dollars that year. It is estimated funds of medicine and nursing which the American federal government afforded are about more than 10,000 hundred million dollars in 2050, it is 10% of its GDP now. The emergence of Alzheimer's disease will influence life quality seriously. Patient lacks, controls one's own ability, lack recognition capability and language ability senile dementia. Embodied in forgetful, uneasy, illusion, wandering up and down,etc. in daily life. Most early patients have depression, the patient often erupts simultaneously and infects in later period. Look after treatment person of patient, have close half the people initiate functional disorder and other relevant disease at home. The really precise pathogenic factor of Alzheimer's disease is not clear now. But discover it has illness coming on and relates to many kinds of factors, such as age wears out, genetic inherent cause, brain traumatism, the virus is infected, aluminium is polluted, smoke etc.. The course of disease of Alzheimer's disease was about 5- 25, because whole body is depleted or the lung is infected with the death finally. The statistics show, the number of the infected of Alzheimer's disease often increases by the speed of doubling every more than 20 years. Nearly there are 17 million - 35 million Alzheimer's disease patients in the whole world. In U.S.A., Alzheimer disease become the fourth major the intersection of death and reason already. The ones that developed rapidly in senilization are present, Alzheimer's disease has already become one of the social public health problems that can't be avoided. (author is a dull-witted Vice President of Chinese committee of association of international old age)

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