6 Keys to Heart Health Also Predict Dementia Risk
IF YOU’RE ALREADY CHANGING your lifestyle to fight heart disease, there’s good news: You may be helping to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia at the same time.
New research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden suggests that six factors in middle age are associated with the risk of dementia later in life. The lifestyle-related risk predictors were the same as those previously linked to heart disease and stroke–high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, obesity and lack of exercise–along with low educational attainment and advancing age.
6 Risk Factors for Dementia:
1. Hypertension
2. High cholesterol
3. Obesity
4. Lack of exercise
5. Low education level
6. Age
