Colds and stomach bugs speed up memory loss in Alzheimer's patients: research
Alzheimer's patients experience faster memory loss if they have an infection, British researchers have found.
Published: 8:00PM BST 07 Sep 2009
A protein activated by the immune system when an infection is found in the body is also involved in the transmission of signals between brain cells and is present in large amounts in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
A team at Southampton University studied 222 people with Alzheimer's disease with an average age of 83
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