Improved heart health in midlife could reduce dementia risk, apathy may be an early warning sign
What’s bad for your heart can be equally bad for your brain and can eventually lead to dementia in later life
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While some cognitive impairment and reduction in capacity for memory, thinking, concentration and other cognitive functions are likely to occur naturally with age, dementia isn’t.
Dementia is a progressive and chronic neurological disease that occurs due to a variety of diseases or injuries that affect the brain, like a stroke or Alzheimer’s disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that globally, around 50 million people have dementia and around 10 million new cases emerge each year now.