February 7, 2019

Alzheimer's May Have Different Trajectory for Women

Sex differences in amyloid burden alone have not been reported in older adults. This may suggest that male-female differences appear downstream, after amyloid beta starts to accumulate, Sperling and colleagues observed. To study this, they evaluated two cross-sectional convenience samples of clinically normal individuals who received both tau and amyloid beta PET scans from January 2016 to February 2018. {read more here}