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Prevention of dementia: what can we do?

Delaying symptom onset by as little as one year could potentially lower Alzheimer’s disease prevalence by more than nine million cases over the next 40 years. Professor Peter Passmore looks at the modifiable risk factors.

Dementia a complex disorder Dementia is a complex disorder and environmental and genetic influences interact to produce the disease. Causes of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia, mixed Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Parkinsons disease dementia and Lewy body dementia. About 33.9 million people worldwide have AD, and prevalence is expected to triple over the next 40 years. One study published in 2010 found that delaying dementia onset by five years will reduce the 2040 prevalence by 37% and an onset delay of two years will reduce the prevalence by 16%.1 There is evidence on seven

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