Rate of US Alzheimer’s Deaths Jumped 55% In Just 15 Years, Data Reveal
Deaths from Alzheimer’s in America have soared 55 percent since 1999, as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a CDC report reveals. The study, published on Thursday in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, spanned 1999 to 2014. It also revealed an increasing number of Alzheimer’s deaths … Read more