Scientists had a long-standing assumption that a higher percentage of women than men get Alzheimer’s disease simply because they tend to live longer than men, but new research suggests that the loss of estrogen as women age, combined with some women having the gene variant ApoE-4, could be a possible key to the wide discrepancy […]
It would be easy to dismiss the fact that women comprise two-thirds of the Americans with Alzheimer’s disease as tied to the fact women tend to live longer than men do. However, a woman has a 1 in 6 change of developing the disease as a senior whereas a man has a 1 in 11 […]
A study on Alzheimer’s disease has revealed that people who get regular, sound sleep for at least eight hours a day, are at a decreased risk of suffering from it and losing their memory, which is one of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. The study directly relates lack of sleep to increased chances of suffering from […]