In US, the Alzheimer's disease is the 6th leading cause of death overall and among those aged 65 and above, it is the 5th leading cause of death. While the deaths from major diseases, like heart disease have decreased, the death due to Alzheimer's have increased by more than 60% between 2000 and 2012. The total number of patients having Alzheimer’s disease was 5.4 million in 2012. Out of this, the people aged 65 and above accounted for 5.2 million and at least 200,000 patients were younger than 65 with early?onset of Alzheimer’s. It has been observed that almost 1 in 8 people coming under the 65+ age group are patients of Alzeimer’s disease. Amongst the population in the 80+ age group, almost 45% have been detected with Alzeimer’s disease.
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