Ď㽶ĘÓƵ News - Sylvia Villeneuve /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Sylvia%20Villeneuve/rss en The onset of Alzheimer’s disease: the importance of family history /channels/channels/news/onset-alzheimers-disease-importance-family-history-285316 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>You’re about to turn 60, and you’re fretting. Your mother has had Alzheimer’s disease since the age of 65. At what age will the disease strike you? A Canadian study published in JAMA Neurology shows that the closer a person gets to the age at which their parent exhibited the first signs of Alzheimer’s, the more likely they are to have amyloid plaques, the cause of the cognitive decline associated with the disease, in their brain.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/villeneuve3.png?itok=ZWFOrivQ" width="160" height="105" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">26 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:03:37 +0000 webfull 135715 at /channels