According to Doctors report, a gentle kind of mental decline that often leads to Alzheimer’s is quite higher than expected and more frequent in men than in women.

Based on a Mayo Clinic study of Minnesota residents, the researchers estimated that each year, almost one million Americans slide from normal memory into gentle impairment.

The problem is hovering over half million Americans who are going to develop full-blown Alzheimer’s or other kinds of dementia  and the problem will certainly rise as the boomers get older as the oldest boomer will be of 62 this year.

The lead author, Dr. Ronald Petersen of Mayo scientist says in this connection “a much larger burgeoning problem can be seen out there as people are the higher risk of developing dementia.”

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