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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Anxious, Jealous Women Face Higher Alzheimer's Risk

Middle-aged women with a neurotic personality style and prolonged stress may have a heightened risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

Tracking 800 women over nearly four decades, Swedish scientists found that those who were most anxious, jealous and moody -- which they defined as neurotic -- and experienced long-standing stress had double the risk of developing Alzheimer's compared to women scoring lowest in these traits.

"No other study has shown that [one style of] midlife personality increased the risk of Alzheimer's disease over a period of nearly 40 years," said study author Lena Johansson, a researcher at University of Gothenburg.

Outside experts cautioned, however, that the study results don't prove that neuroticism triggers Alzheimer's, but they do suggest an association between the two.

The study is published online Oct. 1 in the journal Neurology.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

All stress and we know that stress kills.

Anonymous said...

Well that pretty much covers them all,because every woman I know has at least one or more of those traits.But look on the bright side;in later life they'll meet new people every day.