Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s Study Coming to Louisiana
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is looking for people to take part in a groundbreaking study that looks at ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Director for Pennington’s Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention, Jeff Keller, says they are looking at how something like hypertension can cause impairment of brain function.
"It's gonna be one of the definitive studies to determine if treating hypertension in very specific ways lowers the risks for developing dementia”.
Keller says Alzheimer’s is a complex disease without a cure or any new treatments, and this study aims to figure out which combination of medications and lifestyle changes may help people best avoid the disease. He says they are looking to enroll more than 600 older adults who are at high risk for losing important mental functions…
People with hypertension, people who have memory complaints or people who are just concerned about their memory and want to get involved to find ways to prevent this disease
Keller says 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s which is likely to affect 1 in 9 people age 65 and older. He says it is the costliest disease in the US and will triple in the next 35 years.
Even if we find ways to treat Alzheimer's disease. if the number of cases goes from 5 to 15 million people, it is gonna have catastrophic effects on our society and our economy. We can’t let that happen.
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