Posts Tagged ‘midlife’
Study challenges the “seductive” amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
_____ Vascular Health at Age 36 Tied to Brain Health at 70 (Medpage Today): “A longitudinal study shed light on just how early people may want to start doing something to reduce their dementia risk decades in the future. Each 1% increase in Framingham vascular risk score at age 36 was associated with 9% higher white…
Read MoreStudy: Drinking up to 5–8 glasses of wine or beer a week not seen to increase dementia risk
___ There may be a link between alcohol and dementia, but it’s complicated (Popular Science): “A recent article in the British Medical Journal has rekindled the scientific argument over the relationship between abstaining from alcohol and developing dementia. The study involved 9,000 civil servants working in London, all of whom were
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