Research Article
Public Willingness to Undergo Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease
Table 2
Participants’ report of family history of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and age of onset before 50 years (total number of participants =2935).
| Participants’ report | Number (%) | Onset before 50 years of age; number (%) |
| First-degree relative with AD | 363 (12.4) | 24 (0.82) | Second-degree relative with AD | 584 (19.9) | 19 (0.53) | Both first- and second-degree relatives with AD | 161 (5.5) | 7 (0.24) | First- or second-degree relative with AD | 786 (26.8) | NA | First-degree relative with dementia | 536 (18.3) | 33 (1.12) | Second-degree relative with dementia | 870 (29.6) | 28 (0.95) | Both first- and second-degree relatives with dementia | 273 (9.3) | 11 (0.37) | First- or second-degree relatives with dementia | 1133 (38.6) | NA | Being a caregiver for a patient with AD | 526 (17.9) | NA |
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