Brain-Heart Connections (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Brain-Heart Connections

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In the largest genetic study of Alzheimer's disease, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California, San Francisco, have found that genes that increase risk of cardiovascular disease also heighten the risk for Alzheimer's.

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Illustration by Michael Worful

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