Active lifestyle associated with less Alzheimer disease-related brain change among persons with APOE epsilon4 genotype

Monday, January 16, 2012 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

A sedentary lifestyle is associated with greater cerebral amyloid deposition, which is characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), among cognitively normal individuals with the ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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