I was surprised reading the data from World Population Review, the country with the most cases of Alzheimer's Disease is Finland. There are 54.65 cases of Alzheimer's for every 100,000 people in this country. These numbers and statistics put Finland in the extremely high occurrence and high prevalence range for the disease. Interestingly and make me surprised, females are much more likely to have Alzheimer's in Finland than males. For every 100,000 people, Alzheimer's impacts 55.32 females compared to just 52.10 males. Curiosity why females are much more vulnerable to Alzheimer in this country?
Generally speaking the risk it’s higher for women cause the live more (so no a bad news) to develop the disease. Then I think it’s a matter of hormones and presence with APOE4. In females brings to higher risk.
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I was surprised reading the data from World Population Review, the country with the most cases of Alzheimer's Disease is Finland. There are 54.65 cases of Alzheimer's for every 100,000 people in this country. These numbers and statistics put Finland in the extremely high occurrence and high prevalence range for the disease. Interestingly and make me surprised, females are much more likely to have Alzheimer's in Finland than males. For every 100,000 people, Alzheimer's impacts 55.32 females compared to just 52.10 males. Curiosity why females are much more vulnerable to Alzheimer in this country?
Generally speaking the risk it’s higher for women cause the live more (so no a bad news) to develop the disease. Then I think it’s a matter of hormones and presence with APOE4. In females brings to higher risk.
In Finland the presence of APOE4 is higher, but I think also the absence of sun light for months, alcohol and less healthy diet play a role