A significant Danish study revealed that individuals with Down syndrome face substantially higher risks of acute and chronic ...

The incidence of kidney disease is substantially higher in patients with Down syndrome than in control individuals from the ...

Is Alzheimer’s disease different in people with Down’s? Two recent proteomics studies say yes. In the July 1 Nature Communications, scientists led by Erik Johnson at Emory University School of ...

Down syndrome is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. Because of genes present on this chromosome that are known to contribute to Alzheimer's disease, patients with Down syndrome often develop ...

Women with Down syndrome have more advanced signs of Alzheimer's disease than men do at the average age of diagnosis, which is the same for both sexes, according to research by the University of ...

Since the 1980s, the average life expectancy of a person with Down’s syndrome has more than doubled, from less than 30 to well into their 60s. Living longer, though, has revealed a tragic twist—the ...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a breakthrough, noninvasive technique to develop stem cells strongly relevant to the study of Down syndrome. Writing ...

Nicky Clark is a nutritional therapist in Australia who has been giving personalized nutrition advice to the parents of children with Down syndrome. She's given talks about nutrition for Down syndrome ...