American Academy of Neurology
Having a parent with dementia may affect memory in midlife
Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, March 8th, 2009
For the study, researchers used the Framingham Heart Study to follow three generations of participants to study risk factors of Alzheimer's and other diseases. A total of 715 people belonging to the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study with an average age of 59 were included in the research. One group of 282 people had one or both parents with diagnosed dementia. The other group...
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