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He was in his early fifties – tall, lean and as handsome as an old Hollywood star. He looked in the pink of health when the doctor asked him, “How are you doing?” and he replied in a refined accent, “I am doing well.” The doctor asked him a few more questions like – what did you have for breakfast, did you go for a walk today, where do you stay and what do you do – to which he replied normally but when the doctor asked him the same set of questions within a minute again, I was surprised to hear different answers and was disturbed when he kept repeating the sonorous ‘en, en, en, en’ till the doc interrupted to help him tell his profession and say “engineer.”
“This is a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease where he remembers things for not more than a minute. Alzheimer’s is a progressive and neurodegenerative disease that affects the memory and behaviour of the patients gradually,” says Dr. Siddhartha, Senior Resident, Neurology, IBHAAS. Unlike many other diseases, Alzheimer’s has no specific causes but the risk is heightened by a person’s lifestyle as well as by his/her genes. When the combined results of different risk factors pass over a certain limit and beat the self-repair mechanisms of the brain, then the brain’s ability to maintain healthy nerve cells reduces. While lifestyle-related risk factors can be controlled, genetic factors would sooner or later cause the disease. If one goes by the researches, the high prevalence of genetic risk factors is unquestionable. If one has at least one first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s, the person is 3.5 times more likely to get the disease. The risk increases for each additional case in the family.
He was in his early fifties – tall, lean and as handsome as an old Hollywood star. He looked in the pink of health when the doctor asked him, “How are you doing?” and he replied in a refined accent, “I am doing well.” The doctor asked him a few more questions like – what did you have for breakfast, did you go for a walk today, where do you stay and what do you do – to which he replied normally but when the doctor asked him the same set of questions within a minute again, I was surprised to hear different answers and was disturbed when he kept repeating the sonorous ‘en, en, en, en’ till the doc interrupted to help him tell his profession and say “engineer.”
“This is a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease where he remembers things for not more than a minute. Alzheimer’s is a progressive and neurodegenerative disease that affects the memory and behaviour of the patients gradually,” says Dr. Siddhartha, Senior Resident, Neurology, IBHAAS. Unlike many other diseases, Alzheimer’s has no specific causes but the risk is heightened by a person’s lifestyle as well as by his/her genes. When the combined results of different risk factors pass over a certain limit and beat the self-repair mechanisms of the brain, then the brain’s ability to maintain healthy nerve cells reduces. While lifestyle-related risk factors can be controlled, genetic factors would sooner or later cause the disease. If one goes by the researches, the high prevalence of genetic risk factors is unquestionable. If one has at least one first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s, the person is 3.5 times more likely to get the disease. The risk increases for each additional case in the family.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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