Risk Factors Associated with AD.
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common type of dementia, affecting nearly 5.8 million people in the United States over the age of 65.
One in six women, and one in Ten men who live to be at least fifty-five will develop AD in their remaining lifetimes.
Higher risk for women as they tend to live longer than men.
One in eight Americans age sixty-five or older and nearly half of those over eighty-five had Alzheimer’s in 2008, the year, AD surpassed diabetes as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
