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 5By 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.