Women are more likely to get Alzheimer's disease than men

According to recent research, scientists have found that women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as men. This is related to sex hormones.

Scientists are actively looking for new and effective treatments for Alzheimer's. However, this work is facing many difficulties because the majority of research on Alzheimer's is focused on the male brain, and almost ignores the study of women. This is considered a blind spot in research because the brains of the two sexes, basically, are different.

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women have twice the risk of Alzheimer's disease than men.

Professor Glenda Gillies at Imperial College London, who studied the effects of drugs and hormones on the brain, said: 'We need better data about gender differences. Many women die from Alzheimer's disease. And because they live longer, they have a much higher risk of getting this disease than men. '

Alzheimer's patients have broken proteins, often called plaques and brain plexus. Depending on gender, these tangles are found in different locations.

About 90% of men with Alzheimer's disease have plexus in the center of the brain, the control area for eating and sex, but only 10% of female patients have tangles in this area. Women often have tangles in nearby areas, which are related to their ability to control the production of acetylcholine.

For this disease, women have worse symptoms than men, even if they have less damaged protein.

Research from the University of Kansas also showed that if a child has a mother with Alzheimer's disease, it has a double risk of having an Alzheimer's father. Researchers are trying to solve this problem with experiments on mouse brains, but the differences in the brains of the sexes are a big obstacle for them.

Reference: Daily Mail