From the September 2020 issue of Duke Medicine’s Health News (HN)
Gene Variant Reduces Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
Complex hormone may hold key to cognitive impairment.
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About 5 million Americans, including roughly one in 10 people ages 65 or older and one-third of those ages 85 or older, have symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Even larger numbers have a subtler precursor called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). About half with this condition move on to full-blown Alzheimer’s. There are medications that can slow development […]