%0 Journal Article %T The puzzle of sex, gender and Alzheimer¡¯s disease: Why are women more often affected than men? %A Mary C Tierney %A Melissa K Andrew %J Archive of "Women's Health". %D 2018 %R 10.1177/1745506518817995 %X There are impressive differences in the incidence, prevalence and experience of women and men with Alzheimer¡¯s Disease (AD). Notably, two-thirds of those with AD, the most common form of dementia, are women. Our objective was to provide a literature-based framework to understand these sex and gender differences in AD %K Alzheimer¡¯s disease %K dementia %K frailty %K gender %K sex %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311541/