Coffee and Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most frequent cause of dementia. It is estimated that between 50-70% of people with dementia suffer from AD24. In addition, approximately one person out of twenty over the age of 65 suffers from AD, as opposed to less than one person in a thousand under the age of 6525. Approximately 26 million people suffer from AD. By 2025, the percentage of people in the EU aged over 65 is predicted to rise from 15.4% of the population to 22.4%, which is likely to correlate with a rise in AD26. In 2014 Alzheimer Europe published an updated systematic review of papers reporting the prevalence of dementia. The authors concluded that that for the majority of age...
