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Alzheimer's Disease
Neurology · Neurological
Severe
Severity
Affects approximately 50 million people worldwide; most common cause of dementia
Prevalence
No
Contagious
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by a combination of genetic
- 2lifestyle
- 3and environmental factors. The hallmarks include plaques of amyloid-beta protein and tangles of tau protein in the brain. Risk factors include age
- 4family history
- 5genetics (APOE-e4 gene)
- 6head injuries
- 7and cardiovascular disease.
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