Expert Panel: Target These 14 Factors to Cut Dementia Incidence by Nearly Half

by admin | Jul 31, 2024 | Brain, Mental, Dementia, Parkinson's disease

By John Gever

Source Medpagetoday

PHILADELPHIA — The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care has raised the number of modifiable risk factors definitively linked to cognitive loss to 14, based on research conducted since its last update in 2020.

Vision loss and high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are now added to the commission’s list, which stood at 12 in the previous versionopens in a new tab or window. The new 57-page update, from Gill Livingston, MD, of University College London in England, and colleagues, was published Wednesday in The Lancetopens in a new tab or window and presented simultaneously at the Alzheimer Association International Conferenceopens in a new tab or window here.

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