Alzheimer's Related Amyloid Deposits Linked to Vascular Risk Factors

Development of amyloid plaques in the brain characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is more likely to be associated with vascular risk factors in midlife than with those accumulated in later years. The results of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC)–Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Amyloid Imaging Study were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more.