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Extended Maternal And Paternal Hereditary Risk For Alzheimer’S Disease Examined By Sex In A Sample Of Community Dwelling Older Adults In Cache County, Utah, Elizabeth K. Vernon
Extended Maternal And Paternal Hereditary Risk For Alzheimer’S Disease Examined By Sex In A Sample Of Community Dwelling Older Adults In Cache County, Utah, Elizabeth K. Vernon
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More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and this number is expected to rise and surpass 12.7million individuals by the year 2050. Currently there is no cure for the disease and prior research has focused on prevention by identifying risk factors. Known risk factors associated with AD include older age, female sex, genetics, family history of AD, genotype of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, and vascular risk factors (e.g., cholesterol, hypertension) and conditions or events (e.g., CHF, stroke). The effects of many of the above risk factors have differed in men and women, but few studies …