{"id":24849,"date":"2025-09-03T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:10:13","slug":"these-scientists-found-alzheimers-in-their-genes-heres-what-they-did-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24849","title":{"rendered":"These scientists found Alzheimer&#8217;s in their genes. Here&#8217;s what they did next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who inherit two copies of a gene variant called APOE4 have a 60% chance of developing Alzheimer&#8217;s by age 85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only about 2% to 3% of people in the U.S. have this genetic profile, and most of them don&#8217;t know it because they&#8217;ve never sought genetic testing.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/09\/02\/nx-s1-5522371\/alzheimers-risk-apoe4-genes-scientists-treatment-advocacy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/09\/02\/nx-s1-5522371\/alzheimers-risk-apoe4-genes-scientists-treatment-advocacy\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) People who inherit two copies of a gene variant called APOE4 have a 60% chance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,31,15],"tags":[116,599,186,94],"class_list":["post-24849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-fda","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-donanemab","tag-lecanemab-drug","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24850,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24849\/revisions\/24850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}