India is experiencing a significant increase in cases of dementia

Given the increasing number of people with dementia due to aging around the world, a Lancet Medical Foundation study found that India had experienced a significant growth in the number of patients with the disease Alzheimer's and other cases of dementia from 1990 to 2016.

According to the study published in the journal Lancet, India reportedly recorded nearly 2.9 million cases of Alzheimer's disease and other cases of dementia in 26 years, and about 1 , 4 deaths because of the problem. The results showed that the number of Alzheimer's disease and dementia increased from 20.2 million in 1990 to 43.8 million worldwide in 2016. Of these, 27 million were women and 16.8 million were women. men.

To reach this conclusion, an international group of scientists, including Professor Vasily Vlasov of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New York, badyzed data obtained from 195 countries on the prevalence of Parkinson's disease. Alzheimer's and dementia between 1990 and 2016. The results showed that the number of deaths due to dementia increased by 148% in 26 years.

Dementia is the fifth leading cause of death in the world and the second leading disease after coronary heart disease in people aged 70 and over.

The researchers noted that dementia would represent a growing challenge for healthcare systems around the world: there is growing evidence of a risk of dementia; Indicate that lifestyle and other interventions can contribute – if they are implemented effectively – to delay the onset of the disease and reduce the future number of people with dementia.

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