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Nine Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Says

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 23 2017, @04:26PM   
from the don't-stop-learning dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

One in three cases of dementia could be prevented if more people looked after their brain health throughout life, according to an international study in the Lancet.

It lists nine key risk factors including lack of education, hearing loss, smoking and physical inactivity.

The study is being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London.

By 2050, 131 million people could be living with dementia globally.

There are estimated to be 47 million people with the condition at the moment.

[...] These risk factors - which are described as potentially modifiable - add up to 35%. The other 65% of dementia risk is thought to be potentially non-modifiable.

Source: Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care

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• Re:Risk factors in order of impact Re:Risk factors in order of impact (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:41PM (1 child)

  by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:41PM (#543411) Journal

  They include the most important factors, no?

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• Re:Risk factors in order of impact (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:47PM (#543415)

  The coefficient estimates are meaningless unless the model is correctly specified (it isn't and nobody believes that to be true either).

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