Dementia risk factors identified in new global report are all preventable – addressing them could reduce dementia rates by 45%
- Written by Eric B. Larson, Affiliate Professor of Medicine, UW School of Medicine, University of Washington
Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol.
That is the key finding of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the journal The Lancet.
Dementia, a rapidly increasing global challenge, affects an estimated 57 million...
