Link between metabolic disorders and Alzheimer's disease examined
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
No effective treatments are currently available for the prevention or cure of Alzheimer's disease, the most frequent form of dementia in the elderly. Increasingly, scientists are looking toward other risk factors to identify preventive and therapeutic strategies. Much attention recently has focused on the metabolic syndrom, with a strong and growing body of research suggesting that metabolic disorders and obesity may play a role in the development of dementia.