Re: Re: Is LBD Genetic?/April/Jan

[Guest guest]

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Back last August we started to come up with a list of " common

denominators for LBD. I had promised to try and come up with some sort

of chart. I still have all the saved e-mails and at one time I tried

to start it - Maybe I should try again. A job for a rainy day.

--- stimtimminss wrote:

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An article I read claims LBD comes from environmental effect.

Something in the

environment causes the gene that produces the protein involved to

produce it folded

rather than flat. The body cannot then dispose of the folded protein

lump, so they

accumulate and end up deposited on brain cells. What in the

environment causing this

mutation was not known. If Lewy Bodies were first discovered in l912

was it, then what in

the environment was around then and still is? My mom lived with second

hand cigarette

smoke with my dad for about 12 years. Just a thought.

In response to your mention that surgery can often bring on the

symptoms, my mom

began tremoring within weeks of a shoulder replacement at 79 years.

She was also a

teacher.

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> > Here goes another question. See, I told you that it

> > wouldn't be my

> > last because one question after another keeps

> > popping into my head.

> > Do any of you know if LBD is genetic? My FIL has

> > both PD and LBD and

> > I'm wondering how much at risk that puts my husband

> > and his brother

> > for developing them in the future. To my knowledge,

> > my FIL is the

> > first one in his family to be diagnosed with either.

> > Any idea what

> > brings it on? Just wish there were more definitive

> > answers.

> >

> > Thanks again!

> > April W.

> > GA.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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[Guest guest]

Hello All,

I just wanted to add a comment about a " common denominator " and " genetics "

while you are thinking of collecting data. My Uncle is one of 7 siblings and as

each sibling got older, NONE of them had any type of dementia! He is 82 and

still has a sister, 85, and a brother, 87, alive and well and neither have a

trace of dementia (the other sibs passed away at a later age with no dementia

either). His siblings all live in the same town and he is the only one who has

had a different life style. It would be interesting to see what the common

traits are.

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Back last August we started to come up with a list of " common

Denominators for LBD. I had promised to try and come up with some sort

of chart. I still have all the saved e-mails and at one time I tried

to start it - Maybe I should try again. A job for a rainy day.