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Women develop Alzheimer's more than men due to hormones.

ALZHEIMER'S IN WOMEN : A detailed new brain imaging study , examining a number of cognitively healthy middle aged subject is suggesting lower levels of estrogen in women post-menopause could play a role in triggering brain changes linked to Alzheimer's disease. The research hypothesizes this mechanism may be one of the reason why women suffer from Alzheimer's disease. The research hypothesizes this mechanism may be one of the reason why women suffer from Alzheimer's at greater rates than men. "About two-thirds of people living with Alzheimer's are women , and the general tend to live longer ," says Lisa Mosconi , an author on the new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. However , over recent years many researchers have started exploring potential physiological reasons why there is suck start sex-specific differences in Alzheimer's cases. One novel study last year , for example , pointed to a number of sex-specific genes that could heighten Alzheimer'...