According to new research from the Boston University School of Medicine offspring of Alzheimer’s patients are showing signs of being prone to developing their own memory problems.  This article from McKnight’s Long Term Care News.

Middle-aged study subjects all carried the gene APOE-e4, which is strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease. One group had at least one parent with Alzheimer’s, while the other group carried the gene but had no history of the disease in their family. The group with a family history of Alzheimer’s performed much worse on visual and verbal memory tests; researchers called the difference in memory between the two groups “surprising” — like comparing 55-year-olds to 70-year-olds.

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