Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, incurable brain disorder of unknown cause. The symptoms of this disease include memory loss, confusion and disorientation. There are also changes in the system, an impaired judgment and the loss of speech. Alzheimer's disease is always fatal and is the most common form of irreversible dementia.
An estimated 1.2 million people currently in Germany at the Alzheimer's disease. For the year 2030 is expected to be 2.3 million sufferers. Each year more than 200,000 people from the diagnosis of Alzheimer's affected. It is presumed that the unreported cases is much higher. Alzheimer's is essentially a disease of old age. While only 2-3 percent are affected in the 70-75 year-olds, the prevalence of the disease with age. In the 90-year-olds more than one third are afflicted.
Worldwide, an estimated 15 million people are affected. In every nation in the number of Alzheimer's disease increases with increasing life expectancy. Alzheimer's disease is normal in a tragic way. It is estimated that in 2020 affected 30 million people worldwide will be from the devastating disease and by 2050 the number could grow to 45 million.
Alzheimer's disease has a long history. The name was the beginning of the early 20th Century, characterized as the neurologist Alois Alzheimer first described the symptom complex in 1906. We hope that we in the 21st century can help to find a cure. Although the causes of Alzheimer's disease are still unknown, there are two distinct illness characteristics that show up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. There are collections of different protein, called amyloid plaques and tangles.