More Women Get Alzheimer's, so Why Don't we Study Their Brains?
Lynn Posluns
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Posted 10.03.2012
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Canada Living
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It's frightening to learn that almost 70 per cent of new Alzheimer's sufferers will be women, but research today still focuses on men. Even today, at the grass roots level of research, it is the male rat that's studied because the hormones in the female rat make it too complex.That really got me thinking: if this is something Canadian women think about then obviously so do women all over the world. So the Women's Brain Health Initiative was born.
