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Home » Learn » Basic Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia » Alzheimer’s Disease: Causes and Risk Factors

Alzheimer’s Disease: Causes and Risk Factors

Understanding the potential causes and the risk factors for getting Alzheimer’s disease is important to help you make life-style choices that may help reduce your risk of getting the disease.

Please watch the brief video:


What are the Causes and Risk Factors of Getting Alzheimer’s Disease?


At this time, there’s no definitive answer to what actually causes Alzheimer’s disease. Everyday there’s a new study touting a discovery that “may”….(Read More)

 


Additional Resources:
3 Minute Video on Genetics:


Alzheimers Disease Genetics Fact Sheet

Alzheimers Disease Genetics Fact Sheet

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8-page pamphlet discusses the role of genetics in Alzheimer’s & what types might be inherited, as well as genetic testing and current research.
(Source: http://www.nia.nih.gov/)

Paper: Environment Contributes to Disease

NIA Research Paper

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Institutes of Health research paper about how environmental exposures can result in human diseases by altering DNA and triggering cell death.
(Source: http://www.nia.nih.gov/)


 

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