Traumatic Brain Injury May Lead to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Volume 4 - Issue 3

Jian Shi*

• Department of Neurology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California, San Francisco, USA

Received: September 14, 2020;   Published: September 21, 2020

Corresponding author: Jian Shi, Department of Neurology, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and University of California, San Francisco, USA

DOI: 10.32474/OJNBD.2020.04.000190

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the US, particularly in those under age 40, and ~2% of the US population is living with a post-TBI associate syndrome and disorders, based on CDC reports. It is recently concerned that individuals living with TBI take an increased risk for developing several long-term health problems. An early study found that any history of brain injury increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementia, and severe head trauma doubles the risk of developing AD dementia [1, 2].

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