4 – Alzheimers

High blood pressure, evidence of arterial disease and markers of inflammation in the blood in middle age appear more common in individuals whose parents have Alzheimer’s disease than in individuals without a parental history of the condition, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

See the article here:
High Blood Pressure And Markers Of Inflammation In Blood More Common In Offspring Of Parents With Alzheimer’s Disease (Medical News Today)

Tags: JAMA, the-blood, arterial-disease, parental-history, blood-pressure, alzheimer, condition

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