Psychologic Factors may Raise Alzheimers Risk
 (NY, Reuters Health, 12/9/03)

Dr. Robert S. Wilson and team at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago reviewed data from the Religious Order Study, which included 797 priests, nuns and other religious order members who were an average of 75 years old and mentally lucid when the trial began. The researchers found that subjects who scored high on tests that measured proneness to psychological distress were more likely to develop Alzheimer's Disease than their peers.