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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:44PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:44PM (#543414)

    Yep, just took a look. All they do is include 9 factors that some government listed in their model. It is just more innumerate clueless junk from medical researchers.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:28PM (#543423)

    just more innumerate clueless junk

    "innumeracy" is not a work. It is a parallel construction from "literacy", but fails to account for the fact that "innumerate" is just another way of saying "innumerable", or uncountable. So let us not have any more illiterate critiques from STEM majors, m'kay?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:42PM (#543426)

      You are correct that "it is not a work". However, it is a word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeracy [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 2) by number11 on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:50PM (1 child)

      by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:50PM (#543427)

      "innumeracy" is not a work. It is a parallel construction from "literacy", but fails to account for the fact that "innumerate" is just another way of saying "innumerable", or uncountable.

      No, it's a word. Google gives 125K hits searching on it. It is indeed a parallel construction from "literacy" dating from 1959, but in fact means "unable to understand and do basic mathematics", not "innumerable". What a dilemma, who am I to trust, an AC who may not be entirely illiterate or https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innumerate [merriam-webster.com]?

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:56PM (#543430)

        See, this is how it begins: frist you forget how to spell. Then you start accepting neologisms from 1959. What's next? Malapropisms from the '60's? Pleonasms from the Reagone error? Why are there suddenly to many Fine Articles on dementia here on SoylentNews? They are almost innumerate.