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Study: Action can be taken to reduce dementia risk

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, November 5, 2009

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New research published on Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that the risk of developing certain forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, can be limited based on changeable lifestyle factors, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Those factors include high blood pressure and high levels of cytokines, an inflammatory protein. The study involved 206 volunteers whose parents had developed dementia. The researchers found that compared with individuals whose parents had not developed dementia late in life, the volunteers were more likely to possess the aforementioned factors. While this evidence supports the idea that dementia-risk is tied to lifestyle choices, the researchers note that it appears 60% of an individual’s risk is related to genes.



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