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by Arleeda
Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:16 am
Forum: Science and Research
Topic: Variant of ApoE3 reduces AD
Replies: 5
Views: 587

Re: Variant of ApoE3 reduces AD

This does sound good. I have one copy of ApoE4 and am 84 1/2 years old. I am forgetting things much more than I once did (I had an almost photographic memory when young, never studied and made straight A's). I can still pass the mini-memo tests at the MD's, but how much longer will that last? How ma...
by Arleeda
Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:49 pm
Forum: Our Stories
Topic: 81 and still sane--I think!
Replies: 21
Views: 8532

81 and still sane--I think!

Although neither of my parents had dementia, they may have died too early to tell. My dad had a fatal MI at 63, and my mom died of metastatic liver disease at 80. One of my maternal great-grandmothers did have dementia in her early 80s. I was a scientist (PhD in microbiology and immunology 1968) and...