Dementia: Three reasons why women are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. In Germany, around 800,000 people with a dementia diagnosis are female.
Two thirds of those affected are women. Women have poorer immune defenses than men. Disturbance in the transmission of information in the brain is also apparently determined by gender. Women after menopause are more. likely to suffer from circulatory problems. This means they also have a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases such as. stroke or heart attack.