Emma Heming Willis

Emma Heming Willis is a guest featured in discussions focused on women's brain health. She appeared on a podcast episode alongside Dr. Nicole Beurkens addressing strategies for protecting brain health before the onset of Alzheimer's disease symptoms. She has no academic publications listed in the provided records.

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0:39:57supportedmoderateWhy Women Should Start Protecting Their Brain Now with Dr. N

Approximately 30% of frontotemporal dementia cases are genetic or familial, while 70% of cases are sporadic.

"I know that for, you know, 30%, it can be in genetics, you know, you can see this or within the family, and you can see it through a grandmother, a brother, and, you know, you can see sort of that lineage. And then for, you know, 70% of people with FTD, it's sporadic, meaning it just can happen" (said at 0:39:57)

Published reviews and epidemiological data on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) confirm that approximately 30% to 40% of FTD cases are familial or heritable, while the remaining 60% to 70% are sporadic.

supports: Approaches to develop therapeutics to treat frontotemporal dementia. (Neuropharmacology 2020) · cited 16x in the literature
"While 60-70% of FTD patients are sporadic cases, the other 30-40% are heritable (familial) cases linked to mutations in several known genes." (abstract, passage verified)
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supports: Analysis of Heritability Across the Clinical Phenotypes of Frontotemporal Dementia and the… (Frontiers in neurology 2021) · cited 8x in the literature
"Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly heritable condition. Up to 40% of FTD is familial and an estimated 15% to 40% is due to single-gene mutations." (abstract, passage verified)
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0:41:10supportedmoderateWhy Women Should Start Protecting Their Brain Now with Dr. N

Projections indicate that dementia cases worldwide are expected to triple by the year 2050.

"we're at a time where, you know, they say like 2050 dementia cases are going to triple." (said at 0:41:10)

Global Burden of Disease Study projections published in The Lancet Public Health estimate that the number of people living with dementia worldwide will increase nearly threefold, from approximately 57.4 million in 2019 to 152.8 million by 2050. This projected increase is largely driven by population growth and population ageing.

supports: Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050:… (The Lancet. Public health 2022) · cited 5434x in the literature
"We estimated that the number of people with dementia would increase from 57·4 (95% uncertainty interval 50·4-65·1) million cases globally in 2019 to 152·8 (130·8-175·9) million cases in 2050." (abstract, results)
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Fact-checked episodes

Why Women Should Start Protecting Their Brain Now with Dr. Nicole Beurkens & Emma Heming WillisDavidPerlmutterMD · as guest

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