- The incidence of dementia is rising at an alarming rat
- While it's primarily diagnosed over age 50, it starts decades earlier
- Modifying behavior to avoid a handful of known risk factors can help reduce the chance of getting dementia
A multi-university study lead by the University of Melbourne and the University of Washington has found that the number of people living with dementia worldwide shot up from 20.2 million in 1990 to 43.8 million in 2016. The researchers analyzed data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016, publishing their results in The Lancet Neurology.
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Hazel’s comment:
I would very much like to see the correlation between the increase in dementia and the increase in the number of people aged over 50 in the world population.
I do not have access to the research to discover whether this comparison was done!
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