Tuesday, March 1, 2011

 Mother's Alzheimer’s may boost your risk
( something specific inherited from the mother )
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Having a mother with Alzheimer's disease may boost your risk of getting it more than having a father who suffers from the degenerative brain disorder, new research suggests.
"People with a mother with Alzheimer's disease had signs of brain shrinkage similar to people with early Alzheimer's," says researcher Robyn Honea, DPhil, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Those with a maternal family history, she says, had twice as much gray matter shrinkage, which occurs with the disease, per year as those who had either a father with the disease or no parental history of it. But a spokeswoman for the Alzheimer's Association who reviewed the findings takes exception to them, saying the sample size of 53 people is too small to come to any credible conclusions.
The study, supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is published in the journal Neurology. The findings: 1) Those with a mother with Alzheimer's disease had about 1.5 times more brain shrinkage per year than those with a father with the disease. 2) Those with a mother with Alzheimer's had twice the gray matter shrinkage as those who had no parental history or a father with the disease. 3) The performance on the cognitive tests did not change at two years. Read more: webmd.com


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