Alzheimer’s hits 5.2 million people in US
By Tom | March 18, 2008
According to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association,there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in 2000, and there will be 454,000 new cases a year by 2010.Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Scientists have learned a great deal about Alzheimer’s disease in the century since Dr. Alzheimer first drew attention to it.As many as 5.2 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s and 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime according to the latest Alzheimer’s Association report.
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