New research has found that men who have the Western world’s most common genetic disorder are more likely to develop dementia, compared to those without the faulty genes.
Researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Connecticut have previously found that men with two faulty genes that cause the iron overload condition haemochromatosis are more likely to develop liver cancer, arthritis and frailty, compared to those without the faulty genes.
Now, the team’s new analysis of more than 335,000 people of European ancestry in UK Biobank, funded by the Medical Research Council and published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s…
