Alzheimer's Deaths Are Skyrocketing, CDC Reports

Alzheimer's Deaths Are Skyrocketing, CDC Reports
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Deaths from Alzheimer's disease have risen dramatically in recent years, new government health data shows, and more Americans are dying from the illness at home.

Over a 16-year period, between 1999 and 2014, death rates from Alzheimer's disease increased almost 55 percent, according to findings published Thursday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.



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