Toronto, Dec 5 (IANS) Women who have had both ovaries surgically removed before age 50, and carry a variant of the apolipoprotein gene, are at a high risk of late-life Alzheimer’s disease, a new study said on Thursday. The research, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease by a team from University of Toronto in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Alberta, found that a variant of the apolipoprotein gene, the APOE4 allele, out such women at high risk of Alzheimer’s and the use of hormone therapy mitigates this risk. By 2050, Alzheimer’s disease is projected to affect 12.7 million individuals age 65 and older, with women comprising two-thirds of that number. It is still
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