c) Alzheimer's research has spent billions of dollars on dead ends. Not every problem is solvable, even horrible ones. Especially horrible ones.
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No significant correlations to environmental factors?
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Last time I checked, the only things that correlate with Alzheimer's were things like IQ and total years of education (negatively).
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Time to start drinking more heavily and reduce that IQ risk factor.
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Sorry, I meant the correlation is negative, ie education (and probably IQ) seem to be protective. Being Asian also seems to help. http://www.alzheimersanddementia.com/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journals/jalz/JALZ%20-2117.pdf …
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Dammit. Now I’ll have to find another rationalization.
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Calling Alzheimer's public health is stolen valor.
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I don't understand what this means but I laughed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013 … "stolen valor" is when people claim to have received medals that they didn't.
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Because most 'public health' and most health spend is amelioration not prevention.
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Am tempted to say 'stolen valour' like the other guy. But it's neither, it's the opposite - public health people *only* want to do prevention, just like service designers *only* want to do transformational work etc etc... But there's prior work which needs to be done by someone.
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...and somehow, you never quite get to the 'real' work (to eternal frustration)
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I think it has to do with spending. In the First World most healthcare spending is for end-of-life care, and dementia increases those costs.
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It's increasingly apparent that Alzheimer's is not a disease but a category of diseases. Many of those are preventable or treatable, but the efficacy is obscured because we don't know how to partition experimental subpopulations.
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Even if not preventable, treatable, or transmissible, a significant increase in dementia creates a necessity for public institutions to deal with its consequences. I don't know whether that falls under the definition of "public health" but if not, it's something close.
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Surprise! It may be transmissiblehttps://twitter.com/nature/status/1073904771357163520 …
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“Is Alzheimer's Transmissible? ” by @DashGenomics A summary of about the new development of the question if Alzheimer's is transmissible? https://twitter.com/i/moments/1094659987681423360 … … Check out our personalized#Alzheimers risk analysis with your DNA data http://bit.ly/DashWhy
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