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Reduce your risk of dementia by lowering your ‘bad’ cholesterol level, Lancet review says
- Lancet medical journal review adds 2 risk factors to its list of things that can increase the risk of dementia; one is high LDL cholesterol
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The list of risk factors for dementia keeps growing.
The Lancet family of medical journals established a Commission on Dementia to review the best available evidence from research and produce recommendations on how to best manage, or even prevent, the dementia epidemic.
It published a review of nine risk factors in 2017, then added three new ones in 2020: excessive alcohol consumption, head injury and air pollution.
Managing these dozen risks, the experts said then, could prevent or delay up to 40 per cent of all-cause dementias, including the most common form of dementia – Alzheimer’s disease.
In July, two more risks were added: a high score for low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or “bad”) cholesterol, and vision loss. Managing these, on top of the other 12, could prevent or delay nearly 50 per cent of all-cause dementias.
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