Medscape July 31, 2024
PHILADELPHIA – Nearly half of dementia cases worldwide could theoretically be prevented or delayed by eliminating 14 modifiable risk factors during an individual’s lifetime, a report from the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care.
The report adds two new modifiable risk factors for dementia — high cholesterol and vision loss — to the 12 risk factors identified in the 2020 Lancet Commission report, which were linked to about 40% of all dementia cases.
The original Lancet Commission report, published in 2017, identified nine modifiable risk factors that were estimated to be responsible for one third of dementia cases.
“Our new report reveals that there is much more that can and should be done to reduce the...
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