Why Women Are Predisposed to Alzheimer’s Disease
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk637Keywords:
Menopause, FSH, Estrogen, Alzheimer’s disease, Aged womenAbstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) exhibits progressive dementia, profound disability, and impaired quality of life. Globally, there are more than 50 million AD patients, over two-thirds of which are women. The cause behind this gender difference had remained unclear for decades until FSH (follicle stimulating hormone), a hormone that dramatically increases in women after menopause, was recently found to trigger this phenomenon.
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