Saturday, January 13, 2007

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Most people think of Alzheimer's disease as something that afflicts vacant-eyed 85-year-olds in nursing homes, not Stanford professors or vibrant moms who drive car pool. But almost 500,000 Americans between the ages of 30 and 65 have this degenerative, memory-robbing form of dementia. And during the next 40 years, as the population and awareness of the disease grow, doctors expect the numbers for Alzheimer's as a whole -- both the Early Onset version and the more common Elderly Onset -- to skyrocket from 4.5 million to as many as 16 million.

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