STUDY: People with Alzheimer’s who had three or more of the risk factors linked to cerebrovascular disease performed worse in the Mini-Mental State Examination

Taipei Times
Date: Feb 16, 2020
By: Tsai Shu-yuan and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

A collaborative research project by Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Taipei Veterans General

Hospital has found that if measures could be introduced to prevent or cure cerebrovascular disease, it could help prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

One percent of people over the age of 65 have Alzheimer’s, Lee Wei-ju (李威儒), a doctor from Taichung Veterans General Hospital’s Dementia and Alzheimer Treatment Center, said on Thursday.

With every year after 65, the risk of developing Alzheimer’s increases 2 to 5 percent, Lee said.

Alzheimer’s is most often seen as a kind of dementia and there is still no cure for it, he said.
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