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40% of Dementia Cases Could be Prevented or Delayed – Mirage News

40% of Dementia Cases Could be Prevented or Delayed Gill Livingston, University College London, UK and colleagues have published…

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Gill Livingston, University College London, UK and colleagues have published an excellent update of studies over last three years on prevention of dementia in The Lancet.
A 2017 report from the same group reported that nine potentially preventable risk factors accounted for 35% of the “population attributable risk” for dementia: low education, physical inactivity, mid-life obesity, mid-life hypertension, diabetes, hearing loss, depression, social isolation and smoking.
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