Alzheimer's affecting more women
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With two-thirds of Alzheimer's patients being women, Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin spoke with a local woman who shared the frustrations she often deals with while caring for her ailing mother. Phyllis Urban, 75, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when she was 68. Her daughter, Diane Geisler, acts as a primary caregiver and drives long hours from Pittsburgh to a nursing home in Johnstown."It is the frustration of driving up to see her and there may be a good visit or the visit may not go so well, in which case it's a long drive home," said Geisler. "It's heartbreaking all the time. It's frustrating because there is no cure."Dr. Oscar Lopez, who serves as the director of UPMC's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, said age poses the biggest risk factor, with half of the world's population older than 85 years old having the disease."Nobody knows the cause of the disease. There are some genes involved in some people, but in the majority of cases with Alzheimer's disease, we don't know if it is a gene," said Lopez.Studies have shown that vascular disease, diabetes and depression are also risk factors, but Lopez said they don't cause Alzheimer's. What happens is I am going to have Alzheimer's anyway, with or without diabetes. But because I have diabetes, the threshold to express the disease is lower," said Lopez. Read more: thepittsburghchannel.com
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