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 6/24/24 11:16 AM

# The Risk of Alzheimer's May Lurk Just Around Your Corner

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When small health problems--say, hearing problems, eyesight issues, or even denture fit--add up, the combined effect can increase a person's risk for Alzheimer's disease. This unexpected finding was reported July 13 in *Neurology. * But other  findings about Alzehimer's risk have also lately emerged.

For instance, scientists have found that both having the APOE e4 gene variant and living in a hazardous neighborhood can impair cognition. And since the e4 variant is a strong predictor of increased risk for Alzheimer's, and even small decrements in cognitive function predict dementia risk, it could be that people who have the e4 variant and  live in a "hazardous" neighborhood are in even greater danger of developing Alzhemer's than those who have the e4 variant and  do not live in a hazardous neighborhood.

Find more information about this study and other recents findings from Alzheimer's research in *Psychiatric News *at [http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/27.full](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/27.full)  and in the *Textbook of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, *published by APPI, which can be ordered at [http://www.appi.org/](http://www.appi.org/).

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