Me yasa cutar Alzheimer ta fi tasiri ga mata fiye da maza?

Akwai abin mamaki, wanda ba a sani ba game da cutar Alzheimer (AD), cutar neurodegenerative wanda ke shafar kimanin Amurkawa miliyan 5.8-yana shafar mata ba daidai ba. Kashi biyu cikin uku na wadanda aka gano suna da cutar Alzheimer a Amurka mata ne, a cewar rahoton kwanan nan na kungiyar Alzheimer. Masana kimiyya ba su san dalilin hakan ba.

The Women's Alzheimer's Movement (WAM), wata ƙungiya mai zaman kanta da Maria Shriver ta kafa, tana kan gaba wajen ɗaukar mataki don taimakawa neman mafita. Dokta Sanjay Gupta, babban wakilin likitancin da ya lashe lambar yabo ta Emmy Award na CNN, ya shiga Shriver a Babban Taron ba da lambar yabo na WAM Research da aka gudanar a ranar 11 ga Fabrairu, 2021, don karrama wadanda suka karɓi $ 500,000 a cikin tallafin tallafi don bincike kan cutar Alzheimer ta mata.

'Yar jaridar da ta ci lambar yabo ta Emmy Award, marubuciya mai ba da fata, kuma tsohuwar matar shugaban California, Maria Shriver ta san lalacewar cutar Alzheimer. Mahaifinta marigayi, Sargent Shriver, ya kamu da cutar Alzheimer a 2003. Ta kafa WAM tare da manufa don tallafawa binciken Alzheimer na mata a manyan cibiyoyin kimiyya a duk faɗin ƙasar, don magance takamaiman bukatun mata, gami da mata masu launi. , don taimakawa rage haɗarin su na cutar Alzheimer.

"A wannan shekara mun mai da hankali kan ƙarfin bincike don canza yanayin lafiyar kwakwalwar mata har abada," in ji Shriver ga "The Brain Future" a Psychology Today.

Gupta ƙwararren masani ne kuma marubucin sabon littafin Ci gaba da Kaifa: Gina Kyakkyawar Kwakwalwa a kowane zamani wanda ke ba da ilimin kimiyya kan yadda ake haɓakawa da kare aikin kwakwalwa da kula da lafiyar fahimi. Lokacin da yake matashi, kakansa ƙaunatacce ya fara kamuwa da cutar Alzheimer, wanda ya kunna sha'awar da yake da ita na fahimtar kwakwalwa, da ilimantar da wasu game da cutar da abin da za a iya yi game da ita.

Gupta ya bayyana wa "The Brain Future" a Psychology Today. "Duk da haka, yana da mahimmanci a lura cewa binciken likita na tarihi ya yi watsi da kwakwalwar mata da haɗarin mata na musamman. a bunƙasa cututtukan hankali. Tallafin bincike na WAM da aka baiwa manyan masana kimiyya da likitoci a lafiyar kwakwalwa da rigakafin cutar Alzheimer suna da ikon canza wannan gaskiyar ga kwakwalwar mata. ”

Masu ba da tallafin sun haɗa da masana kimiyya daga ko'ina cikin Amurka a ƙarshen binciken dalilin da yasa cutar Alzheimer ke shafar mata ba daidai ba.

Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D., a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Ƙwararrun Mata a Weill Cornell a New York, za ta yi amfani da tallafin ta don bincika menene wasu abubuwan da ke haifar da haihuwa (kulawar haihuwa, yawan masu juna biyu, amfani da maganin maganin hormone, shekaru a menarche, shekaru a menopause) suna taka rawa a farkon da ci gaban cutar Alzheimer a cikin mata. Wannan yana kan tushen aikinta akan estrogen da menopause azaman abubuwan haɗarin Alzheimer.

Laura Cox, Ph.D., a Cibiyar Ann Romney don Cutar Kwayoyin Halittu a Brigham da Asibitin Mata a Boston, za ta yi amfani da tallafin ta don fahimtar yadda gut microbiota ke sarrafa Alzheimer ta hanyar canza tsarin halittar halittu a cikin maza da mata don neman hanyoyin don mafi alh treatri kula da AD a cikin mata.

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D., a Jami'ar Arizona Center for Innovation in Brain Science, tana amfani da tallafin ta don yin nazarin magungunan ciwon sukari iri na 2 da haɗarin haɗarin cutar Alzheimer a cikin mata.

Dean Ornish, MD, a Cibiyar Nazarin Magungunan Rigakafi da ke San Francisco, an ba shi kyauta don ci gaba da aikin sa na farko a kan jujjuya cututtukan zuciya ta hanyar sauye -sauyen salon rayuwa ta hanyar gwajin sarrafawa bazuwar don ganin idan ci gaban farkon Alzheimer zai iya juyawa tare da salon rayuwa magani.

Richard Isaacson, MD, a Asibitin Rigakafin cutar Alzheimer a Weill Cornell a New York, zai yi amfani da kuɗin don tantance wayar da kan mata ƙabilu kan fahimtar cutar Alzheimer da haɗari don ƙirƙirar jagorar ilimi da nufin mata daga kabilu daban -daban a cikin haɗin gwiwa tare da Dr. Eseoasa Ighodaro daga Mayo Clinic a Rochester, Dr. Josefina Melenze-Cabrero a San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Amanda Smith a Jami'ar Kudancin Florida Alzheimer's Institute, da Dr. Juan Melendez a Jersey, England.

Tallafin tallafin ya kuma haɗa da mata masana kimiyyar da ke da alaƙa da Ƙungiyar Alzheimer wanda cutar COVID-19 ta duniya ta katse ayyukansu. Megan Zuelsdorff, Ph.D., tana nazarin matsin lamba da yanayin zamantakewa azaman abubuwan haɗari masu haɗari;

Ashley Sanderlin, Ph.D., yana binciken abincin ketogenic da bacci; Fayron Epps, Ph.D., yana binciken rawar imani da kulawa a cikin jama'ar Amurkawa na Afirka; da Kendra Ray, Ph.D., yana binciken maganin kiɗa da kulawa.

“Binciken likitanci a tarihi ya bar mata daga gwaji na asibiti da manyan karatun lafiyar kwakwalwa, tare da mummunan sakamakon ƙarshe cewa akwai rata a cikin ilimin game da lafiyar mata da dalilin da yasa suke cikin haɗarin haɓaka Alzheimer, dementia, da sauran cututtukan fahimi. , ”In ji Shriver. "Tallafin waɗannan sabbin dabarun karatun Alzheimer na mata yana taimakawa wajen rufe wannan gibi. WAM ya yi imani da ƙarfi cikin ikon bincike, kuma ta hanyar tallafawa kimiyya ne kawai za mu haɓaka matakan da a ƙarshe za su iya haifar da allurar rigakafi, magani ko magani."

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