By Judy George
Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers — two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing — had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer’s disease, an analysis of U.S. death certificates showed.
Of nearly 9 million people who had died with occupational information, 3.88% had Alzheimer’s disease listed as a cause of death. However, only 1.03% of taxi drivers and 0.74% of ambulance drivers died from Alzheimer’s disease, according to research led by Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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