Avtor/Urednik		Lovrečić, Luca; Maver, Aleš; Zadel, Maja; Peterlin, Borut
Naslov		#The #Role of Epigenetics in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Tip		članek
Vir		830380
Leto izdaje		2013
Obseg		str. 345-365
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		Neurodegenerative disorders are among the greatest challenges and among the most serious health problems that will have to be faced by the modern societies across the world, especially in light of increasing population age. They are incurable, progressive conditions resulting from continuous degeneration and death of nerve cells. Most of these disorders become more common with advancing age, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The burden of these neurodegenerative diseases is growing inexorably as the population ages, with incalculable economic and human costs. According to a collaborative study of the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Harvard School of Public Health (the Global Burden of Disease Study) dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases will be the eighth cause of disease burden for developed regions in 2020 [1, 2]. Moreover, they will become the world¼s second leading cause of death by 2050, overtaking cancer [2]. These future projections are of course only estimates, but they in combination with current state certainly support the fact that neurodegenerative diseases are of an increasing public concern.
Proste vsebinske oznake		neurodegenerative disorders degeneration nerv cells Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease