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Shockingly nothing anywhere in these comments about the potential ties between herpes (HSV1 specifically) and Alzheimer's: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=
by eganist 8y ago
Shockingly nothing anywhere in these comments about the potential ties between herpes (HSV1 specifically) and Alzheimer's: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=alzheimer's+hsv https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=alzheimer's+hsv
Is this a fringe theory?
- strstr 8y agoOnly sort of fringe, a few comments link to Derek Lowe's blog post which posits an infectious cause (a different strain of herpes iirc): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444515
- IAmGraydon 8y agoI believe you would expect a correlation between percentage of population with HSV1 and percentage with Alzheimer’s in each country. No such correlation exists.
- eganist 8y agoSome of the theories seem to hinge on HSV1 and ApoE4 (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4) both being necessary to substantially drive up the risk. One example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458006000807 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745800... I don't currently have access, but it'd be nice if someone who did could crack into the statistics of some of these.
- tim333 8y agoNot sure about HSV1 but there was a lot of press recently about the discover of herpes strains, HHV6A and HHV7 in alzheimer's patients brains. As discussed here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591