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Your Risk Increases If Both Parents Have Alzheimer’s

If both your parents have Alzheimer’s disease, you probably are more much likely than other people to get it, researchers said on Monday.

Their study focused on 111 families in which both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia among the elderly, and assessed the risk for developing it among the offspring.

The parents had 297 children who lived into adulthood. Of the 98 men and women who were at least 70 years old, 41 of them — about 42 percent — developed Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found.

“That’s greater than you would expect in the general population in that age group,” Dr. Thomas Bird, one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview.

In the general population, risk for the disease begins to rise at about age 65, with the number of people developing the disease doubling every five years beyond that, experts say.  Read more

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