Inhaled Anesthetics Can Cause Alzheimer’s to Happen Sooner

If you’re having nonessential surgery, you may want to ask you doctor to rethink inhaled anesthetics:

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine have discovered that common inhaled anesthetics increase the number of amyloid plaques in the brains of animals, which might accelerate the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

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Posted by on 03.11.2007 • Alzheimers Health News

Comments: 2 »

  1. Wow! There are so many things that are coming out now that they didn’t know before.

    I tagged you for the Am I Talking to You meme.

    Comment by Laura - March 14, 2007 10:32 am

  2. Thanks Laura,
    I’ll try to get to it soon. We’ve been crazy busy this month!

    Comment by Anonymous - March 27, 2007 7:14 am

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