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To those people who are easily get depressed it is time to cheer up and avoid sadness and sorrow.
This developed after a recent study by researchers revealed that those people suffering from depression have strong tendencies to also be inflicted with the deadly Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease, which is named after the German physician Alois Alzheimer who first described it in 1906, is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 50 to 70 per cent of cases.
It is a progressive and fatal brain disease with no cure and the 7th leading cause of death in the US.
Alzheimer’s destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior that impair ability to work, relate to others, enjoy hobbies and get on with every day life.
The National Institute on Aging reports that according to recent estimates, as many as 2.4 to 4.5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s.
The astounding medical discovery was made possible through the study conducted by Dr. Po H Lu, assistant professor of neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and colleagues.

It is time to cheer up for depressed persons to avoid strong chances of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

In order to gather the data, Lu and his team closely monitored 756 people between 55 and 91 years of age who had Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a form of depression for three years.
According to the information gathered by the researchers it was discovered that participant’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s went up by 3 per cent for each point increase on the depression test.
With the result of their research, Lu and his team came to the conclusion that the results suggest that depression is predictive of progression from amnesic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) to Alzheimer disease (AD).