Health conditions that are risk factors are more prevalent in different ethnicity groups.
Health conditions that are risk factors for dementia - including diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure - are "magnified" among some ethnic groups.
A team led by Naaheed Mukadam of University College London looked at the relationship between the risk factors and dementia onset using English primary care records for 865,674 adults in diverse ethnic groups from 1997 to 2018. Compared to white patients, researchers said high blood pressure has 1.57 times more impact on dementia risk in South Asians and 1.18 times more impact in black people.
The study was funded by Alzheimer’s Society. The charity’s associate director for research and innovation, Dr Richard Oakley, said: "We know that dementia, and dementia risk, affects people differently based on a number of factors, including hypertension, obesity and diabetes. "Research will beat dementia and with dementia being the UK’s biggest killer, and one in three people born today going to develop the condition, research has never been more important."
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