Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer's: Report
(Washington, AP, 6/20/05)

Lisa Mosconi of New York University School of Medicine, and associates, scanned the brains of 53 healthy middle-aged and older people and tracked them for up to 24 years. The investigators found a link between lower glucose activity in the part of the brain known as the hippocampus and the eventual development of Alzheimer's or a related memory disorder. Other research presented at the Alzheimer's Prevention Conference linked the following factors to Alzheimer’s:

• Low intake of fruit and/or vegetable juice.
• Less education, gum disease or stroke.
• Decreasing social activity in old age.
• Low ratios of a particular amyloid type in the blood.