New research offers some of the first biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer's disease.
New research offers some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex.
Previous studies have suggested that at any age, women are more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s. Scientists also know that a gene variant calledIn addition, women in the early stages of the disease may go undiagnosed because they tend to do better on verbal tests than men, which masks Alzheimer’s damage.
They found that tau networks in women with mild impairment were more diffuse and spread out than in men, suggesting that more areas of the brain were affected. . “Women are able to sustain normal verbal performance longer,” partly because of better brain metabolism.
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