Sentences with phrase «risk of amyloid plaques»

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APOE4 raises the risk of Alzheimer's partly by encouraging amyloid beta to collect into damaging plaques.

While approximately 80 percent of Alzheimer's disease patients also have cerebral amyloid angiopathy, or amyloid beta deposits in the brain's blood vessels that increase the risk for stroke and dementia, the predominant amyloid beta pathology is plaques.

The gene is also linked to formation of the amyloid - beta peptide associated with sticky plaque, one of the supposed hallmarks of the disease, but how ApoE4 actually brings or heightens risk for the disease is unclear.