By PPN News Staff
There may be more to women’s higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease than their tendency to live longer than men. There appears to be an association between dementia risk and reproductive history in women, according to a large-scale study reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 in Chicago.
Of the 5.5 million people aged 65 years or older with Alzheimer’s in the United States, 3.4 million are women and 2.0 million are men,