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Dementia risk in women higher in same‐sex than opposite‐sex twins

INTRODUCTION: Hormones may be one possible mechanism underlying sex differences in dementia incidence. We examined whether presumed differential prenatal hormone milieu is related to dementia risk by comparing dementia rates in same‐ and opposite‐sex dizygotic twin pairs in male and female twins. ME...

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Published in:Alzheimers Dement (Amst)
Main Authors: Luo, Jing, Beam, Christopher R., Karlsson, Ida K., Pike, Christian J., Reynolds, Chandra A., Gatz, Margaret
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306516/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32582836
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12049
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