What Dementia Risk Factors are you Ignoring???

Studies have found that modifiable risks factors can make a difference and decrease the proportion of people developing dementia,  https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/falling-dementia-rates-us-and-europe-sharpen-focus-lifestyle , the Framingham Study – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943081/pdf/nihms762894.pdf

Modifiable means you can change it. They include: 

  • Low education attainment
  • Physical inactivity
  • Depression
  • Midlife hypertension
  • Diabetes
  • Smoking
  • Midlife obesity
  • Hearing loss
  • Social isolation

What are you going to do today to make a change for the ‘healthy’?

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