Check out the study Dr. Deborah Barnes, Chief Science Advisor at Together Senior Health, co-authored, which found eight modifiable risk factors linked to more than one in three cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia, including midlife obesity, midlife hypertension, physical inactivity, depression, smoking, low education, diabetes, and hearing loss.
Eight modifiable risk factors were linked to more than one in three cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in the U.S., a cross-sectional analysis showed.
The eight risk factors -- midlife obesity, midlife hypertension, physical inactivity, depression, smoking, low education, diabetes, and hearing loss -- were associated with 36.9% (95% CI 36.5-37.3) of Alzheimer's and dementia cases, reported Roch Nianogo, MD, PhD, of the University of California Los Angeles, and Deborah Barnes, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco, and co-authors.