Public Willingness to Undergo Presymptomatic Genetic Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 5

Reasons for rejecting presymptomatic genetic testing for Alzheimer’s disease (total responses 1177).

Reasons	Number of responses (%)
Worried about developing a mental illness after knowing the result	383 (32.5%)
Fear of the result of genetic testing	326 (27.7%)
No cure for Alzheimer disease currently	269 (22.9%)
Worried that the result will affect my employment	116 (9.9%)
I do not trust genetic tests	104 (8.8%)
Afraid from financial consequences of the medical care	33 (2.8%)
Worried about discrimination by insurance companies	31 (2.6%)
Other	68 (5.8%)