EAN Research Paper of the Month

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission.

The number of people living with dementia is steadily rising, making it more urgent than ever to identify and implement effective prevention strategies.

This work updates the 2020 Lancet Commission report in which twelve risk factors for dementia were identified, using a life-course approach: i.e., less education, hearing loss, hypertension, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption, traumatic brain injury, air pollution, and social isolation. In this recently published report, two more risk factors, i.e. untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol, have been added as risk factors for dementia in midlife and late life, respectively.

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