Forty percent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting 12 risk factors throughout life

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uosc-fpo072920.php

News Release 30-Jul-2020
University of Southern California - Health Sciences


Modifying 12 risk factors over a lifetime could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases, according to an updated report by the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC 2020).

Twenty-eight world-leading dementia experts added three new risk factors in the new report -- excessive alcohol intake and head injury in mid-life and air pollution in later life. These are in addition to nine factors previously identified by the commission in 2017: less education early in life; mid-life hearing loss, hypertension and obesity; and smoking, depression, social isolation, physical inactivity and diabetes later in life (65 and up).

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