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Infections ’Speed Memory Loss’
Infections outside the brain may speed memory decline in Alzheimer’ s disease, UK researchers say. The Southampton University researchers studied 222 elderly people with Alzheimer’ s for six months, and they found that getting infections in places like the chest or urinary tract (尿道) could lead to higher level of an inflammatory (引发炎症的) protein called turnout necrosis factor (TNF) in the blood, and double memory loss.
There were 110 of the 222 subjects who developed a total of 150 infections, in areas such as the chest, stomach and intestines (肠) and the urinary tract, which led to the production of TNF proteins. These are collectively known as acute systemic inflammation events (SIEs).
Subjects with one or more SIEs during the six months follow - up had two times the rate of cognitive decline from their baseline score at the start of the study compared with those who had no SIE. And those patients
A. UK researchers have studied people who had brain infections and found there is no connection between infections and memory lost.
B. It is found that infections in the chest or urinary tract could lead to memory lost in people with Alzheimer’ s disease.
C. UK researchers studied people with Alzheimer’ s disease and found the connection between infections and memory lost.
D. TNF is a kind of inflammatory protein, the level of which can influence the memory of people with Alzheimer’ s diseas