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Inflammation, Genes, and Hypertension All Contribute to Alzheimer's Risk
U.S. News & World Report, 11/03/09

You might think of Alzheimer's disease as a genetic condition that you can do nothing to avoid. But that may not be the case. New research suggests that Alzheimer's is partly driven by inflammation, a process that we do have some control over. In the study of 206 volunteers whose parents developed dementia late in life, Danish researchers found that, compared with those whose parents didn't have Alzheimers, the volunteers were more likely to have high blood pressure and high levels of inflammatory proteins called cytokines.