%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of APOE Genotype and Vascular Risk Factors As Prognostic and Risk Factors for Alzheimer¡¯s Disease and Their Influence On Age of Symptoms Onset
%A Aleksej Duma
%A Antoni Novotni
%A Biljana Blazevska-Stoilkovska
%A Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
%A Gabriela Novotni
%A Igor Kuzmanovski
%A Katerina Karanfilovik
%A Marijana Stankovic
%A Milena Jakimovska
%A Milos Milutinovik
%A Natalija Baneva-Dolnenec
%A Nikolina Tanovska
%A Rosalinda Isjanovska
%A Svetlana Iloski
%A Vasko Aleksovski
%J Archive of "Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2019
%R 10.3889/oamjms.2019.166
%X Alzheimer¡¯s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is evolving to become a threatening epidemy of the 21st century. Only 21% of the predicted number of AD patients in Macedonia have been diagnosed and treated, which means that almost 80% are underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. Apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is recognised as the strongest genetic risk factor for sporadic AD. Whether and when Alzheimer¡¯s disease develops, depends on the very complex interaction between genetic and modifiable risk factors. It has been known that vascular factors like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia and obesity increase the risk of developing both AD, vascular dementia and mixed AD and vascular patholog
%K Alzheimer¡¯s disease
%K APOE¦Å4 allele
%K hypertension
%K dyslipidemia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420953/