Men than women suffer from memory disorders

Scientists from the U.S. presented results of a study of the memory frequency and pace of development in men and women. As it turns out, men are more prone to this disease. However, doctors say that, the presence of memory disorders in women dramatic effects of dementia begin earlier. Impaired memory, where a person forgets the simplest things can be a sign of serious cognitive impairment. Common in elderly patients with disorders of memory and intelligence to develop a dementia characterized by progressive dementia and the disintegration of the personality. Experts from the U.S. Mayo Clinic decided to find out whether. From the male and female risk factor for mental disorders The study, which was started in 2004 and continues to this day, have received more than two thousand patients aged 70 to 89 years with a State of the intelligence. About three-quarters of them were obtained mentally. 16 percent have mild cognitive impairment, and found 10 percent of dementia. According to the authors of the study, regardless of age, moderate mental retardation in males and a half times more likely than women met. About once a year doctors performed a dynamic assessment of the intellectual abilities of patients by four parameters: to understand the state of the memory, the ability to think logically, verbal and visual information. The data on education, marital status of the subjects were not included. In the course of monitoring found that the proportion of men increases with mild cognitive impairment, 12 percent in the age of 70 to 74 to 40 percent in the oldest age group. The authors suggest that dementia is less common among women in the advanced age. However, the pace of development of dementia in women is higher than men's. These data contradict previous studies, after which the females suffer more often or to the same extent as men from progressive dementia. The data were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.