The 94-year-old died of heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the New Mexico medical investigator.

Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of dementia and rapidly progressive forms of Alzheimer's disease.

Gene Hackman’s primary cause of death was due to hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease — but what does the condition entail? Hypertensive Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease is a combination of hypertensive heart disease and arteriosclerosis.

Sex differences in tau may help explain why women face higher Alzheimer's dementia risk than men. At high levels of brain amyloid-beta, women had more aggressive tau accumulation than men, a meta-analysis of longitudinal PET data showed.

The 94-year-old died of heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the ... according to the National Institute on Aging. The Mayo Clinic says it’s the most ...