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Chris Hemsworth 'Pissed' Off By False Alzheimer's Reports: 'I Had Been Vulnerable With Something Personal'

Chris Hemsworth is setting the record straight about being predisposed to developing the type of dementia.

Two years after revealing his increased risk for developing Alzheimer's, Chris Hemsworth is hoping to put any confusion to rest. In one episode, it was shared on-camera that the dad of three carries two copies of the APOE4 gene, which puts him at an eight to 10 times higher risk of developing the disease than someone in the general population. "To all the families, there really is hope that we can do something about this disease," Dr. Allison Reiss, an Alzheimer's Foundation of America's Medical, Scientific and Memory Screening Advisory Board Member, told ET of frontotemporal dementia.

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