Interestingly, the Mayo Clinic researchers reported that men are 1.5 times more likely than women to have memory problems. You may wonder then, how it can also be true that more women develop and die from Alzheimer’s Disease?
The kind of memory loss in the study is called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Scientists theorize that in men, there’s more of a delayed progression from MCI to dementias like Alzheimer’s. Conversely, possibly dementia in women progresses faster. Nobody’s sure. Read more about it at Medical News Today.