Ailments boost inflammatory protein which may speed decline
(NEWSER) - Urinary tract, chest, and other infections may double the speed of memory loss among Alzheimer’s sufferers, researchers in Britain find. About half of subjects in a six-month study got infections outside the brain that prompted increased levels of an inflammatory protein; those who suffered such events, called SIEs, showed twice the rate of cognitive decline of those who didn’t experience them, the BBC reports. More»
