One study found that men and women are equally as likely to develop non-Alzheimer’s dementia as they age. This means there’s a specific tie between Alzheimer’s disease and sex.

Maria Shriver helped launch a Las Vegas clinic to uncover why Alzheimer’s affects women most — and how lifestyle changes may ...

New research offers some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimer’s ...

And by age 65, women without the disease have more than a one in six chance of developing Alzheimer's during the remainder of their lives, compared with a one in 11 chance for men.

Yet our ability to reduce Alzheimer’s risk and devise new strategies for prevention and treatment is impeded by a lack of knowledge about how and why the disease differs between women and men.

Why does Alzheimer’s tend to affect women more than men? Of the 6.2 million people over the age of 65 in the United States who currently have Alzheimer’s disease, two-thirds are women. Studies ...

The latest research from the Alzheimer's Association shows a woman's lifetime risk of developing the neurodegenerative disease is one in six, compared with one in 11 for men. More than 5 million ...

ASHLEY: IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS TWICE AS COMMON IN WOMEN COMPARED TO MEN. OF THE 6.2 MILLION PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S WHO ARE AGE 65 OR OLDER, ALMOST TWO THIRDS ...

After age and genetics, being a woman is the single most important risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease, experts say. “Two out of every three brains affected by Alzheimer’s disease ...

Scientists have long sought to explain why Alzheimer’s Disease strikes women so much more often than men. Among the 5.2 million Americans 65 and over who have the devastating brain disease ...

Two-thirds of Alzheimer's cases are women, and researchers from the University of California San Diego have received a $5.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand their ...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer's disease are women, and now some scientists are questioning the long-held assumption that it's just because they tend to live longer than men.