General anesthesia is Alzheimer's disease

General anesthesia is used during surgery, increases the risk of dementia by 35%. This is the conclusion, researchers from the University of Bordeaux in France.

Alzheimer's disease

Observations of more than 9000 patients have allowed the French scientists to the sad conclusion that the direct link general anesthesia   and the development of dementia. It turned out that people who have gone through surgery with anesthesia and 65 years later was diagnosed significantly more often Alzheimer's disease   and other similar incurable diseases.

Science has long been known that the so-called postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POKD), that is confusion, which is frequent postoperative complications in elderly patients, may be associated with subsequent dementia. Scientists believe some anesthetics can cause inflammation of the nerve tissue that activates or accelerates the development of proteins causing plaques leading to Alzheimer .

Nevertheless, it is possible that POKD is a symptom of the human predisposition to dementia, not its cause. French researchers have observed for patients older than 65 for 10 years. On average, 9% of them developed dementia, which is significantly below the normal rate of 20% of patients with dementia in people aged 75 years. At the same time those elderly who are over 10 years of observations before passing through operations general anesthesia , Developing dementia by 35% more.

The cause of the authors of the study did not install. However, experts believe the data obtained further evidence POKD connection with the development of plaques that lead to Alzheimer's disease. (READ MORE)

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