Subject:  Re EMR and Alzheimers (Royds)(Sobel).
Date:     Sun, 24 Sep 2000 170254 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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.........Reply from EMF-L..........

On September 18th, we (EMF-L) carried a news report forwarded by John 
Royds (U.K.) which contained information purporting to show an increase in Alzheimer's
cases -- and in younger age groups.  I asked our best expert 
on that subject to comment.  His response is below......guru......

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: EMR and Alzheimers (Royds).
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:05:31 EDT
From: SobelHERI@aol.com
To: roy@emfguru.com

Roy:

My first and current reaction is to be very skeptical about a large relative 
increase in the incidence of onset of AD below age 60.  In addition, 
blindness is not, I think, related to Alzheimer's disease - certainly not in 
the literature.

Community-based physicians do not diagnosis AD or even dementia very well.

There are evidently no studies of an increase in early onset AD.  It is 
thought that late onset AD may be increasing, but the lack of 
population-based studies makes it difficult to determine whether there are 
reasons other than the aging of the population.

In addition, Davanipour and I were concerned with magnetic fields not 
electric fields in our 1996 paper.  We do have additional hypotheses and we 
and our colleagues are hoping to have some very preliminary data soon.

Gene


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