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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…
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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