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Six Reasons Alzheimer’s Is More Common for Women

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For many years, the medical community assumed that women and men contracted Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) at similar rates. They knew that more elderly women than men had the problem, but they simply assumed that the reason was that women lived longer than men.

Certainly, age is one of the strongest correlations for contracting AD, but it’s not the only one. Recent evidence suggests there are six biological reasons why Alzheimer’s poses a more serious risk to women’s health more than to men’s health.

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