Dementia risk factors
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Dementia Microchapters |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: ,Sabeeh Islam, MBBS[2]
Overview
Risk factors
- Degenerative: This is the most common cause of dementia, named Alzheimer's disease.
- Stroke
- Lewy body disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Huntington's disease
- Pick's disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy[1]
- Brain tumors
- Brain infection
- Low educational attainment
- Midlife hypertension
- Midlife obesity
- Elevated plasma homocysteine level
- Down Syndrome
- Smoking
- Social isolation
- Late-life depression
- Female gender
- low IQ
- Genetics
- ↑ Livingston G, Sommerlad A, Orgeta V, Costafreda SG, Huntley J, Ames D, Ballard C, Banerjee S, Burns A, Cohen-Mansfield J, Cooper C, Fox N, Gitlin LN, Howard R, Kales HC, Larson EB, Ritchie K, Rockwood K, Sampson EL, Samus Q, Schneider LS, Selbæk G, Teri L, Mukadam N (December 2017). "Dementia prevention, intervention, and care". Lancet. 390 (10113): 2673–2734. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31363-6. PMID 28735855.