Why Women Are Predisposed to Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) exhibits progressive dementia, profound disability, and impaired quality of life. Globally, there are more than 50 million AD patients, over two-thirds of which are women. The cause behind this gender difference had remained unclear for decades until FSH (follicle stimulating hormone), a hormone that dramatically increases in women after menopause, was recently found to trigger this phenomenon.