Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

Diabetes, high blood pressure, stress, depression, obesity, abnormal blood fat levels, metabolic syndrome, smoking and traumatic brain injury raise our risk for Alzheimer's Disease. (Reitz and Mayeux, 2014). As we will see in the next post, genetics plays a role, as well.  So, too, does age.   However, we have…

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