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The Food Science and Nutrition Department of the College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University organized a workshop on ‘Food and Nutrition in Health and Disease’. The workshop discussed topics including Food and health; and nutrition and neurological and metabolic disorders in Oman. In addition to researchers from different colleges at SQU, three international [...] Patient Presents History of Present Illness Mr. X is a 53-year-old male who presents to you with memory loss and blackouts. His wife thinks he has Alzheimer’s disease. She states that over the last year, Mr. X has become more and more forgetful. He used to take care of the family finances and run his own business [...] In a study of patients with mild to severe Alzheimer’s disease, they found that people who suffered acute or chronic infections, or even bumps and bruises from a fall, were much more likely to have high blood levels of a protein involved in inflammation and also experienced faster memory loss than people who did not [...] Scientists have found three new major genetic links to Alzheimer’s, affecting up to 20 percent of people with the brain-wasting disease, and said on Sunday it was the most significant such discovery in 15 years. Two large studies found that the three new genes join the better-known APOE4 gene as significant risk factors for the most [...] |
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