Alzheimer's: High BP, diabetes may cause early death

Alzheimer's: High BP, diabetes may cause early death
Stern, the author of the study and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of Gertrude H Sergievsky Center at Columbia University Medical Center stated that two factors - high BP and diabetes - can bring an early end to the Alzheimer patients. A NEW research, published in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that the Alzheimer patients, who have been suffering from hypertension and diabetes have a higher risk of death as compared to Alzheimer patients, who do not have high blood pressure and diabetes.
Alzheimer’s is one of the dreadful diseases that claims many lives at once - one of the patient and the other of those who takes care of the patient. Those who look after the patients, have to serve them 24 hours a day. Yaakov Stern, the author of the study and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of Gertrude H Sergievsky Center at Columbia University Medical Center, New York stated that two factors - high blood pressure and diabetes - can bring an early end to the Alzheimer patients.
There were 323 people, who were selected for this landmark research. All of them underwent physical and memory testing after every eighteen months. But they did not show any memory problems.
According to the report of the study, the average life span of an Alzheimer is between three to nine years. It was also discovered that Hispanic people could live for eight years after the disease was properly diagnosed. The report also states that the Alzheimer patients who have diabetes are twice likely to die early than those who do not have diabetes. The Alzheimer patients, who have high blood pressure, have 2.5 times more risk of dying as compared to those who have normal blood pressure.