Usually, disease Huntington’s manifests in people over the age of 30, but may start earlier.
Disease Huntington’s disease affects the cognitive abilities of the brain
This condition affects the behavior, thinking, learning, gait, movement, by actually damaging cognitive processes, including changes in the personality of individuals. diagnosed with this disease.
A common symptom in patients with Huntington’s disease is uncontrolled movements, called chorea.
How Huntington’s disease manifests itself
- At the locomotor level – muscle stiffness, muscle contraction, difficulty walking.
- At the cognitive level – the person can not concentrate, can not organize daily activities, has a slow thinking, has learning difficulties.
- At the mental level – depression is the most common manifestation. The patient is irritable, anxious, has suicidal thoughts, has mania, bipolar disorder, lack of energy, and sometimes mark of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
More severe forms of Huntington’s disease
In the more advanced stages of the disease, patients have difficulty speaking and swallowing, uncontrolled movements become even stronger, and memory disorders and sudden mood swings are among the most common forms of the disease.
There is no specific treatment for this condition, but there are drugs that have the role of reducing the symptoms reported by patients, being treated locomotor problems, but also damage to the brain, according to Antenna 3.
Number of patients with cardiovascular diseases will increase, experts warn
The president of the Center for Innovation in Medicine, Marius Geantă, warned in February that health systems, including the Romanian one, should be prepared for an increase in the number of patients with cardiovascular diseases. The specialist’s position comes in the context of the publication of a study showing that heart failure and stroke are more common in people who have contracted COVID-19.
A study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that people who became infected with coronavirus had an increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications in the first month to one year after infection. Such complications include disruptive heart rhythms, inflammation of the heart, blood clots, stroke, coronary heart disease, heart attack, heart failure or even death.
Infection with COVID-19 virus, risk of developing cardiovascular disease
“The risk of developing cardiovascular disease for at least one year after being diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection is higher even in patients who have had mild COVID-19.
The risk is also high for people under the age of 65 who do not have it risk factors such as obesity, diabetes or smoking, ”said Marius Geantă, president of the Center for Innovation in Medicine, in a post published on his Facebook page, referring to the study published in Nature Medicine, in February 2022.
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