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Is vitamin D deficiency linked to Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia?
Based on an increasing number of studies linking these risk factors with Vitamin D deficiency, an article in the current issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (May 2009) by William B. Grant, PhD of the Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center (SUNARC) suggests that further investigation of possible direct or indirect linkages between Vitamin D and these dementias is needed. Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, diabetes treatment, poor vitamin d, vitamin d
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Maintaining the brain’s wiring in aging and disease
Researchers at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge, supported by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have discovered that the brain’s circuitry survives longer than previously thought in diseases of ageing such as Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published today in the journal Brain. Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, dementia, disease
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