He Alzheimer’s has increased in the world and women may be the most affected. According to different statistics, in the US Women over the age of 60 are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s what breast cancer While, in England as in Australia, dementia has become the leading cause of death for the female gender, replacing heart problems.
“This cannot be sustained by any health system, it is too much in terms of numbers,” he stressed. Antonella Santuccione-Chadhaa doctor and specialist in Alzheimer’s based in Switzerland, told the BBC portal and added: “And it is women who face the disease the most, we need to investigate the differences between the masculine and feminine details in it.”
Latin America It is one of the three regions with the greatest difference in the prevalence of Alzheimer’s between men and women, after the countries that make up the Southeast Asian (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) and Western Europe. Much of the gender gap comes down to one of the biggest risk factors for dementia: age.
In that regard, women typically live longer than men, so they are more likely to get dementia. The results of two large studies of Aging and Cognitive Function (CFAS) suggest that, in the last 20 years, the number of new cases of dementia fell by 20 percent, especially due to the reduction in lto incidence among men older than 65 years.
According to research, there are risk factors for the development of Alzheimer’s that affect women more than men. depression, and depressed mood, has been linked to the appearance of the disease and is a disorder that in statistics affects more in the female sex. Other risk factors exclusively affect women, such as surgical menopause and pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline later in life.
“The most obvious differences emerging in research are in the display and progression of cognitive and psychiatric symptoms between men and women with Alzheimer’s disease. Based on these new studies, we can design new hypotheses and find out new ways to improve the treatment of patients”, Ferretti maintains to the British portal.
The group Women’s Brain Project (WPB)composed by Santuccione-Chadha, Ferretti and Schumacher, as well as the chemical Gautam Maitra, They have just released a report reviewing a decade of scientific research on Alzheimer’s. For the preparation of the study, existing data was reviewed and the scientists were asked to stratify them by sex for the first time.
Currently, Alzheimer’s is detected by looking for two toxic proteins that accumulate in the brain. Evidence suggests that there is no difference in the levels of these proteins in men and women with Alzheimer’s disease. But women show greater cognitive decline. Some specialists claim that the estrogen protects the female brain when younger, but that those benefits wane after a certain age. Others, however, believe that previous diagnoses were more successfully established in female patients. “We must see more significant funding boosts to ensure research advances for all people with dementia”, conclude the project specialists.
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