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How does a person get Alzheimer's disease?

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Early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease can affect younger people with a family history of the disease, typically between the ages of 30 and 60 years. It accounts for under 5 percent of all Alzheimer's cases. read more

Among other causes are Lewy Body Dementia, vascular dementia, dementia related to Parkinson's Disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and dementias caused by other medical conditions (thyroid disease, drug toxicity, thiamine deficiency with alcoholism, and others) as well as brain injury, strokes, multiple sclerosis, infection of the brain (such as meningitis and syphilis), HIV infection, fluid build-up in the brain (hydrocephalus), Pick's disease, and brain tumors. read more

Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) offer diagnosis and treatment services. ADCs are funded by the National Institute on Aging and located across the country. Experts estimate a skilled physician can diagnose Alzheimer's with more than 90 percent accuracy. read more

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