General anesthesia can cause Alzheimer's disease

Many elderly people struggling avoid surgical procedures requiring general anesthesia, as they fear that the anesthesia can cause dementia. Are these fears justified?

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Several scientific studies have found a link between Alzheimer   and surgical anesthesia. Last year, scientists found that people older than 65 years that have passed through the operation with general anesthesia , Dementia develops more often than those who do not lay on the operating table. Perhaps this is due to the fact that drugs for anesthesia stimulate inflammatory processes in the brain, which in turn promotes the formation of amyloid plaques - clots associated proteins Alzheimer .

However, studies on this subject continues and science can not be said that general anesthesia   activates or accelerates Alzheimer's - hard evidence of this yet. Sometimes surgery is changing people's behavior, but often have an underlying disease, rather than a consequence of anesthesia. You may recall, with some diseases elderly patients usually get on the operating table. It bowel volvulus, hip fractures, problems with the coronary arteries, etc. These diseases in themselves a negative impact on the brain, especially if you proceed with complications.

By the way, to detect Alzheimer's disease and will soon be at a completely healthy person. American scientists from Georgetown University have developed a blood test that a 90-percent accuracy to predict, will this person a victim of dementia or not. 10 analyzes of lipids, or fats in the blood, the presence of which is associated with the risk of yet incurable disease. (READ MORE)

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