What are the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease?

What are the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease?

Gus Alva (Medical Director, ATP Clinical Research) gives expert video advice on: What is "Alzheimer's disease"?; How can I identify the first stage of Alzheimer's disease?; What happens to the brain of an Alzheimer's patient? and more...

Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease happen to include older age, so again, people over the age of 65 are at much greater risk. Things like diet are also important. A high cholesterol diet might not be such a good thing. Activity levels, again, staying active would be good. What a surprise that is right? Eat right and exercise and you'll live longer. Well the same thing stands by this illness. Other things that might have an impact include things like having suffered a blow to the head earlier on in life. Traumatic brain injury often can create somewhat of an issue. Vascular risk factors like diabetes or hypertension that haven't been well controlled can unfortunately contribute to additional insults that somebody with Alzheimer's disease would make their illness look worse. But the biggest things, would be advancing age and a family history of the illness.