Bryan Johnson· Author
Women are 2x more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer disease than men.
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Women are 2x more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer disease than men.
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women women are twice as likely experience alzheimer's than men
if you look at Alzheimer's disease and you look at the prevalence I think it's two out of every three cases are women
if you look at Alzheimer's disease and you look at the prevalence I think it's two out of every three cases are women
most people who follow the research will be very well aware that alzheimer's disease disproportionately affects women the answer that used to be thrown about was well that's because women live longer anybody who understands even first order mathematics will realize that the increase in expected lifespan of women does not fully explain that so there must be something else
at any point in time women seem about 20 percent more likely in a given decade to get Alzheimer's disease than men
and what that suggests is that the two to one prevalence is probably a function of that coupled with the fact that women are living longer that that would be my interpretation of this
unfortunately women are at almost twice the risk of men