Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Number of Patients Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease Each Year


By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room

About 789 person are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease each day. A little lower than the Alzheimer's Association number. This number does not include those that are not getting diagnosed. Most likely a large number.

More than twice as many women as men are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease each year. Average age around 75 years old.




Source National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and WolframAlpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Alzheimer's+disease

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Bob DeMarco is the Founder of the Alzheimer's Reading Room and an Alzheimer's caregiver. Bob has written more than 2,112 articles with more than 274,000 links on the Internet. Bob resides in Delray Beach, FL.

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