Advisory Board January 15, 2025

The number of Americans who develop dementia each year will reach around one million by 2060, according to a recent study published in Nature Medicine. But experts say there are a number of ways to reduce your dementia risk.

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For the study, researchers looked at data on more than 15,000 people who were part of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, which initially started in 1987 to track cardiovascular risk and is funded by NIH. The population of the study included people from Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Minnesota, and focused on Black and white participants, as there weren’t many participants from other racial and ethnic groups.

The study estimated that the number of Americans...

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