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Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease: Possible Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease Read a newspaper, ANY newspaper, and you will come across medical technologies such as reduction in infant mortality, development of vaccines and antibodies, and advances in the treatment of heart disease and stroke that have contributed to the recent increase in life expectancy. In 1900 the average life expectancy in the US was about 50 years and now it has risen to 73 years for men and 78 years for women 1.What does this mean in terms of quality of life' It means that with this increase in life expectancy, new epidemics such as dementia (deterioration of mental function) have been unmasked. The goal of the recent research on aging is to increase the quality of life and find the cause and a possible treatment for these new epidemics. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly and denotes about 70% of all dementia cases 1. It causes more than 100,000 deaths each year and is the fourth leading cause of death after heart disease, cancer and stroke 3. Two major characteristics of Alzheimer’s Disease have been identified: 1) neurofibrillary tangles and, 2) extracellular plaques containing amyloid disposition 1. The latter characteristic will be ad, head, factors, e4, allele, aluminum, injuries, disease, environmental, alzheimer’s, genetic, might, cause, apoe, found, brain, hippocampus, increase, cases, two, tangles, regions, patients, neurofibrillary, hsv1, death, between, been, b-amyloid, accumulation, life, injury, individuals, gene, etiology, colleagues, ps2, ps1, possible, onset, neurons, neural, interaction, factor, b-app, virus, mean, interact, genes, causing