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Newswise — NEW YORK, NY (Oct. 30, 2019)–Education may erase the risk of cognitive decline associated with the APOE e4gene—the biggest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease—in older non-Hispanic black people, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The study was published online (pre-press) in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
“There’s frustratingly little we can do to lessen the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but education appears to be one of the few interventions that we know works,” says first author Jet M.J. Vonk, PhD, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging…
