Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease

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The causal factor for the Alzheimer’s disease should not be confused to be the normal aging. The symptoms of the disorder are quite different, but only related to the ones which occur during aging. The disease is caused by both inherited and inherent genes (Selkoe, 2001). Alzheimer’s disease is commonly caused by genetic factors, but the patient has to be exposed to non-genetic elements for the disease to completely occur. The non-genetic factors include diet, environmental factors like previous injuries to the head, deficiency of some vitamins, and high blood pressure. Since the disease is hypothesized to be caused by genetic factors, I would target my research on genes that are believed to cause the disease to identify if they truly cause