Development of Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer name derived from the name of Dr. Alois Alzheimer, the German physician who first discovered the disease in 1906. Dr. Alzheimer noticed changes in the brain tissue of women who die from mental disorders who had never met before.

The observation of surgery, Alzheimer discovered the brain's nerve is not only shrinking, even filled with sediment protein called amyloid plaques and fiber neuro fibrillary convoluted.

Although the disease is discovered nearly a century ago, he was not as popular as other diseases, such as heart disease, hypertension, Pernafasen Severe Acute Syndrome (SARS) and so on.

Publications on Alzheimer's disease is still low, many people are not aware of the disease until publicly disclosed by the former President of the United States 40th, Ronald Reagan in a letter dated 5 November 1994.

In about 1950 an estimated 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from this disease, and reached six billion people in 2000. WHO estimates that more than one billion people aged over the age of 60 or 10 percent of the world population suffering from Alzheimer's in 2003.

This increase is due to the growing number of elderly people in the world, increasing the life span up to 80 years for women and 75 years for men. In addition, the maintenance of better health, declining marriage rate, divorce increased and they were married but not many children.

Recent clinical research suggests supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids may slow menurunan cognitive function in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease.