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Doctors say it is possible that an Alzheimer's patient could progress to the point that damage from the disease to the centers of the brain that control breathing could cause death, but patients rarely get that far without an infection setting in.
Alzheimer's Disease. On Death and Dying; Causes of Death in Alzheimer's Disease. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) reported this year that in 2006 Alzheimerâs disease moved up one place to become the 6th leading cause of death in the USA. 72,914 Americans died of the disease. While life expectancy for Americans increased to an average 78.1years, statistics showed that Alzheimerâs disease was the only one of the 15 leading cause of death where death rates increased (age is one of the major risk factors for Alzheimerâs).