What Increases Your Risk Certain things make getting a disease
more likely. These are called risk factors. Risk factors for
Alzheimer's disease include: - Getting older. This is the main
risk factor. People rarely have dementia before age 60. - A
family history of Alzheimer's disease, especially if one or more
of your parents or siblings has the disease. - The presence of
the Reference apolipoprotein E-4 gene. - Having Down syndrome. -
Injuries to the brain, especially more than one injury that
caused you to pass out (such as a concussion from a fall, car
accident, or playing a sport.) |By:||Reference Healthwise
Staff||Last Revised: Reference October 29, 2012| |Medical
Review:||Reference Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Reference Myron F. Weiner, MD - Psychiatry, Neurology ©
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