Recent Advances in the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer disease is the most common cause of dementia and contests closely stroke as 4th leading cause of death in developed world. Fortunately, the scale of the problem in India is not as big as of now; but it is likely to grow substantially in the time to come due to the presence of rapidly ageing population in India. The cause of this dementing illness has however remained elusive. Most omportant hypothesis hovers around the ill effects of beta-amyloid. Myriads of other hypotheses have also been proposed; the latest one is that it may be a disease caused by endothelial dysfunction.