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Alzheimer’s disease

Background

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, responsible for just over half of the approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand people with dementia in the UK. It is a physical disease which attacks the structure of the brain.

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Medical text written October 2000 by the Alzheimer’s Society, London, UK. Last updated November 2004 by Professor C Ballard, Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Society, London, UK.

 

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