Prevention and Treatment of Basic Diseases: A Potential Direction to Intervene Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract

As the life span of human beings increases, the number of dementia patients such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasing. AD may be one of the major diseases faced by the whole world in the future. It is an unresponsive for single drug according to the current stage of AD pathogenesis and drug research. Combined use of various drugs may be the inevitable trend of AD drug research in the future. Personalized treatment of metabolic diseases, vascular diseases and chronic inflammatory risk diseases is a necessary step to intervene in AD. During the middle age, to strengthen immunity and to reduce the external environment to stimulate the susceptible gene, which is beneficial to suppress the formation of AD. In a word, the early prevention of AD is better than the later treatment.