More evidence today that being married may protect us against Alzheimer’s Disease or a less serious loss of cognitive abilities.
This comes from Krister Hakansson of Sweden in a report to the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease today. The study looks at more than 1,400 people in Finland over a 21-year period from middle-aged to over 65.
Among those who carried a gene associated with Alzheimer’s, the ones who were married when the study began fared much better than those who were widowed or divorced then.
Why Be Married? For Protection Against Alzheimer’s
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