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RSS FeedsThe woman who should have got Alzheimerīs by 50, but didnīt
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10 november 2019 07:44:48

 
The woman who should have got Alzheimerīs by 50, but didnīt
(WorldNews Health)
 


The womanīs genetic profile showed she would develop Alzheimerīs by the time she turned 50. She, like thousands of her relatives, going back generations, was born with a gene mutation that causes people to begin having memory and thinking problems in their 40s and deteriorate rapidly towards death around age 60. But remarkably, she experienced no cognitive decline at all until her 70s, nearly three decades later than expected. How did that happen? New research provides an answer, one that experts say could change the scientific understanding of Alzheimerīs disease and inspire new ideas about how to prevent and treat it. In a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers say the...


 
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