Alzheimer's Disease
Neurologic Disease May Be Lifelong Illness
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 4th, 1996
Alzheimer's may be like hardening of the arteries, resulting from a lifelong biological deterioration that becomes apparent only when people are older, authors of the study said.
The study analyzed nuns' youthful writings and found that those women who showed low linguistic ability when they were in their 20s had a much higher risk of Alzheimer's when they were elderly.
The findings could indicate Alzheimer's impairs language ability when people are young, the researchers...
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