An Argentine research team has found evidence of a possible trigger factor for the onset of Alzheimer's disease: stress. Dr Edgardo Reich (Buenos Aires) presented a study on the subject at the XXI World Congress of Neurology in Vienna. 118 patients with diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease were examined, their average age was 73. An average of 2.4 years had passed between this diagnosis and the onset of symptoms. The group of Alzheimer's patients was compared to a control group of 81 healthy individuals whose age, gender distribution and educational level corresponded to the Alzheimer's group...
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