In search of an anti-inflammatory drug for Alzheimer disease

You have a good chance of getting dementia, hopefully your doctor has protocols to prevent that.

Your risk of dementia, has your doctor told you of this?

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.`    

3. A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018 

The latest here:

 

In search of an anti-inflammatory drug for Alzheimer disease

• Erika Gyengesi &
• Gerald Münch 

Nature Reviews Neurology volume 16, pages 131–132 (2020)Cite this article

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Evidence suggests that chronic neuroinflammation has an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. However, in a new clinical trial, the tetracycline antibiotic minocycline, which has anti-inflammatory properties, failed to delay disease progression in individuals with mild Alzheimer disease.

Refers to Howard, R. et al. Minocycline at 2 different dosages versus placebo for patients with mild Alzheimer disease: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Neurol. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.3762 (2019)

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