Health consciousness delays dementia onset

Dr. Josef Coresh is senior author of a new study of more than 12,400 adults which quantified how vascular measures in middle age may delay dementia onset study published August 5

By Murray Sherriffs

Scientists have identified three health measures in middle age that can ward off dementia for more than a decade:

  • Normal blood pressure
  • Type 2 diabetes (stop eating so much and exercise more; and
  • Don’t smoke

One can add an average 13 dementia-free years.

The findings were published yesterday in the medical journal Neurology Open Access.

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