Scientists say the number of people with Parkinson’s disease doubled in 25 years to become the fastest growing neurological disease among humans.
The researchers noted that the speed of the spread of Parkinson’s disease does not decrease with the passage of time, the number of infected at present is 6.9 million patients. By 2040, this number is expected to reach about 14.2 million, indicating that humanity is rapidly aging. Doctors of Parkinson’s nerves called on people to come out and protest the current situation in society.
Doctors believe that the protests of AIDS patients in the 1980s forced governments to invest billions of dollars in scientific research on the treatment of HIV, which led to the invention of effective antiviral therapy. We do not see, according to neurologists, any similar protests that make the nervous disease can be cured.
The problem with Parkinson’s disease is that the onset of the first obvious symptoms, such as limb tremor, indicates that the disease has been in the patient for many years.
It was possible to intervene to prevent the development of the disease at an early stage of infection, but the human does not feel at those stages any obvious symptoms. When the disease is detected in advanced stages, doctors find themselves unable to treat it.
Many doctors see it as important to give priority to research that will find ways to diagnose Parkinson’s disease in its early stages.
