14 key risk factors could prevent or delay nearly half of dementia cases, study reveals.
There are 14 key risk factors starting in childhood that could prevent or delay nearly half of dementia cases, a new study reveals.Vision loss and high cholesterol have been added to the 12 previously identified risk factors, according to the 2024 Lancet Commission report.Together, these new factors account for 9 percent of all dementia cases, with 7 percent linked to high cholesterol from around age 40 and 2 percent to untreated vision loss later in life.
'Our evidence base also may be inadequate to capture other important influences on dementia, such as very early life influences including brain development in utero or in adolescence and the role of reproductive health.'Charles Marshall, a professor of clinical neurology at Queen Mary University of London, also emphasized that most of what determines whether an individual develops dementia is outside their control.
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