And the numbers actually mean risk -- the higher the blood pressure, the greater the risk -- and the interesting thing is the risk begins to occur even at relatively normal blood pressure readings. So the higher you go, the worse off you're going to be, from a blood pressure point of view.
Hawking went on to Cambridge to research cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole. In early 1963, just shy of his 21st birthday, Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was not expected to live more than two years. Completing his doctorate did not appear likely.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease that rapidly, progressively and severely affects the brain. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one cause of dementia and results in the destruction of brain cells in the brain.Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease eventually leads to the development of many tiny holes in the brain.The disease was first described by German neurologist Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt in 1920, and shortly afterwards by Alfons Maria Jakob, giving it the name Creutzfeldt-Jakob.ymptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occur most often in the elderly, after the age of 60. Symptoms are due to the destruction of brain cells and include neurological symptoms, such as memory loss, blindness, and poor coordination.