Would You Want To Know If You Are Predisposed To Getting Alzheimer's?
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 23:07
in Health & Medicine
If you are predisposed to Alzheimer's disease, would you want to know or would it just make you depressed? People with a family history are already at higher risk and current research says the risk is further increased if they also carry a certain version of the gene called Apolipoprotein E (APOE). There's been a longstanding debate about whether learning such information might cause lasting psychological harm, at least among those with a family history of Alzheimer's disease, says Scott Roberts, a University of Michigan researcher at the School of Public Health and co-author of a new study which appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. If you are predisposed to Alzheimer's, do you want to know? Yes,...
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