In the study, people with two copies of APOE4 had a lifetime dementia risk of 59 percent compared with lifetime risks of 48 percent for people with one copy and 39 percent for people without the ...

Older adults with two copies of the gene had a 59% risk of developing dementia in their older age, compared with 48% of those with one copy and 39% of those with no copies of the gene, the new ...

Here’s some really bad news to start your week — your odds of developing dementia are much higher than previously thought. Prior research suggested that up to 14% of men and 23% of women in ...

A recent Nature Medicine research report is sounding an alarm. The risk of developing dementia by the age of 95 is 42%. The finding that the risk of dementia increases with age is well described.

The dementia risk was greater for women and Black Americans, the study found. New cases of dementia in the United States are projected to double in the next three decades, a new study suggests.