治好阿尔茨海默病的办法

Will there ever be a cure for Alzheimer’s10）？ 终究有没有治好阿尔茨海默病的办法？
　　“I am not sure if there will be a cure， per se， but I am very hopeful that there will be a successful disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s disease within the next decade. We have now started prevention trials that are testing biological interventions even before people show clinical symptoms of the disease. And we don’t have to cure Alzheimer’s—we just need to delay dementia11） by five to 10 years. Estimates show that a five-year delay in the terrible and expensive dementia stage of the disease would reduce Medicare12） dementia costs by nearly 50 percent. Most important， that would mean that many older people could die while out ballroom dancing rather than in nursing homes.”
　　—Reisa Sperling， professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School

“我不确定是否会有本质上治好的办法，但我十分期望未来十年会有能有用改进阿尔茨海默病的疗法。现在，咱们现已展开了防备实验，甚至在人们呈现临床症状之前进行生物学干涉。而且，咱们不需要治好阿尔茨海默病——咱们只需要把失智症推迟五到十年。据估计，把可怕而且花费贵重的失智期推迟五年，就能削减联邦医保中有关失智症50%的费用。最重要的是，这就意味着更多的白叟可能在舞厅跳舞时逝去，而不是在调理院里逝世。”
　　——哈佛大学医学院神经学教授雷萨·斯珀林