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Originally Posted by historycircus
All that tasty Aspartame aside, there is another factor behind the exponential jump in identified cases of Alzheimers.
Alzheimers disease has only been recongnized as such for a few decades. A certified doctor in the 1920s would have lumped it under the catch all "dimentia."
Has there really been an exponential increase in the manifestation of this disease, or are the high numbers the result of better diagnosis and record keeping?
Just a thought . . .
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From the original post:
Kelleher points to a 9,000 percent increase in the domestic diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease since 1979. That year, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, 653 people died of Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
I am pretty sure there was a consistent medical definition for Alzheimer's in 1979 and that doctors were at least somewhat familiar with it.