Risk of dementia death inverse to height, study claims

People who are short have an increased risk of dementia death, according to the findings of a new study. Researchers from the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh analysed data on 181,800 people for the years 1994-2008 and found that risk of dementia death went down by a factor of 1.24% per inch height increase. Lead author Dr Tom Russ, of the University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, said: “In these analyses in which we grouped together 18 studies, we found that shorter adult height was associated with an increased risk of subsequent