Inside Precision Medicine November 11, 2024
Healthier midlife behaviors lead to better outcomes for age-related brain diseases even in people with genetic predisposition, research using data from the U.K. Biobank showed. A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston found that after about 12 years of follow-up, each 5-point improvement in subjects’ Brain Care Score (BCS) was tied to a reduced risk of dementia, stroke, and depression.
The study appeared in Neurology and was led by senior author Christopher D. Anderson, MD, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and an associate neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
BCS is a brain health tool that ranks behaviors and clinical measurements with the aim of encouraging lifestyle adjustments to lower the...
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