INQUIRER.net: Alzheimer’s cases to triple by 2050–study

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Alzheimer's cases to triple by 2050–study Feb 7th 2013, 01:11 WASHINGTON - Alzheimer's disease cases in the US will nearly triple in the next 40 years, according to new projections Wednesday that suggest there will be nearly 14 million sufferers by 2050. In 2010, there were just 4.7 million people with Alzheimer's disease in the United States. The researchers who made the projections attribute the predicted increase to the high numbers of "baby boomers" -- the especially large generation born after World War II -- who are now reaching old age. More than half of those with the disease by 2050, some seven million people, will be 85 or older, the researchers said. The trend has been noted in the past, but the new study updates the figu... Keep on reading: Alzheimer’s cases to triple by 2050–study Media files: alzheimers-disease-research.jpg (image/jpeg)

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