Atherosclerosis is not implicated in association of APOE ε4 with AD

Abstract
We studied 147 patients (age 62 to 103 years; mean ± SD, 85.5 ± 7.7 years), all Japanese, from whom frozen brain tissues were obtained at random from the autopsy series at Yokufukai Geriatric Hospital. Neurodegenerative disorders other than AD were excluded. The 147 patients consisted of an AD group (n = 48) (age 62 to 95 years; mean ± SD, 84.7 ± 7.3 years) in which the neuropathologic findings satisfied the criteria of the Consortium to Establish a …