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Which one of the following is NOT a risk factor for Alzheimer disease?
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1) trisomy 21
2) female sex
3) age
4) tobacco use
5) family history of dementia
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| srf
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| srf
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i mean 4 tobacco use
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| p53
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as I know, smokers actually have LOWER risk for Alzheimer disease than non-smokers!
Edited by p53 on 04/16/06 - 03:17 PM
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I DIDN,T KNEW IT.
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| babli
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Smoking: There is conflicting research but there are indications that nicotine is a protector against Alzheimer's disease! However, smoking is also known to cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases that are Alzheimer's risk factors.
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| babli
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Statistics show that very few smokers develop Alzheimer's disease. This research may partly explain why. And once again it's because of nicotine's affinity with that brain chemical, acetylcholine. There's a theory that good memory (in rats and humans) depends on having plenty of acetylcholine. But in Alzheimer's disease there's an unusually low number of acetylcholine receptors. They seem to disappear along with memory. According to Levin, nicotine may help compensate:
We've done some work with aged rats and you can see the improvement with nicotine in the aged rats although its more difficult to find with the chronic infusion. We may have to go to higher doses. Part of this may be that aged rats as well as aged people have fewer nicotine receptors in the brain.
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| p53
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'Whilst not a reason in itself for smoking tobacco, it should be noted that Ulcerative Colitis is twice as common in non smokers as in smokers.'
Longmore, M., Wilkinson, I., Torok, E. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (Fifth Edition) p. 232
of course, the risks of smoking greatly outweigh its benefits!
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| determine
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I`m confused, in Toronto notes Alzheimer`s risk factors are given as:
FHx of AD
Head injury
low education
smoking
aluminum
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schizophrenia occurs equally in men and wowen
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| msyamp
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smoking is not a risk factor
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| AAAAA
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MCC could not use smoking as answer,
smoking is wrong
The only medical therapy in smoking is ulcerative colitis
smoking is wrong answer I do know MCC, MCC does not give out this answer smoking
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| AAAAA
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female sex + estrogen + estrogen replacement seems to protect Alzheimer's dz ??
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did you take mcc exams AAAAA?
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| Rasul
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Female sex is a risk factor. But I read that family history of ALzheimer is not important as risk factor as they thought before.
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