Watch Out Heart Disease and Cancer; Alzheimer's is Next
There's been some talk about moving cancer from the second highest cause of death to first place. But what's even more astounding is that Alzheimer' s has now moved into third. According to The Washington Post, Alzheimer's used to be the sixth leading cause of death, but experts are now taking a step back because the stats may be wrong -- many more people may have it than is reported. Tara Bahrampour writes, "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists Alzheimer’s as the sixth-leading cause of death, far below heart disease and cancer. But the new report , published Wednesday in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that the current system of relying on death certificates for causes misses the complexity of dying for many older people and underestimates the impact of Alzheimer’s." She adds that, w hile the CDC attributed about 84,000 deaths in 2010 to Alzheimer’s, the report estimated that number to be a whopping 5...