Dementia risk may be twice as high as Americans live longer, study finds
A study that was published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine suggests that the risk of dementia may be far higher than previously believed.
According to earlier research, roughly 14% of men and 23% of women will experience dementia at some point in their lives. That estimate is raised by the latest study to about 42% for both men and women.
Not participating in the study, Dr. Ted Huey, director of the memory and aging department at Butler Hospital in Rhode Island, said, "I think this is going to be a very important study, and I think it is going to change the way we look at dementia."
Dr. Josef Coresh, the director of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Optimal Aging Institute and the study's leader, stated that people living longer than previous generations are the main cause of ...