Traumatic Brain Injury: New Research Suggests Ways to Slow Alzheimer's

Treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes can slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. All of these conditions are linked to heart disease. Across the world, more than 26 million people have Alzheimer's disease. The number of people with the condition is expected to quadruple by 2050.

New Research Suggests Way to Slow- or Prevent- Alzheimer's

A new prevention study tracked 891 patients with dementia for four years. Patients who were monitored for diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol performed better on thinking and memory tests than those who were not monitored for these conditions. Another recent study shows that avoiding brain injury also has a protective effect because death of brain cells triggers the production of amylois-beta protein, which causes the brain-tangling plaques of Alzheimers.