Senior Housing News September 25, 2024
Scientists at the University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio have conducted a new genome study to better determine dementia risk factors and its causes.
According to a Sept. 17 press release, the study revealed an overlap between dementia diagnoses with any cause, and those related to vascular issues, according to Dr. Bernard Fongang with the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio.
“Dementia is a multifactorial disease with Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia pathologies making the largest contributions – and yet, most genome-wide association studies focus just on Alzheimer’s disease,” Fongang said. “We conducted such a study of all-cause dementia and discovered a substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia.”
The new study...
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