Opinion: Dementia risk, higher than thought, requires a national strategy
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JANUARY 18, 2025
A recent Nature Medicine research report is sounding an alarm. The risk of developing dementia by the age of 95 is 42%. The finding that the risk of dementia increases with age is well described. What’s new and startling about this result is the number. It’s double prior estimates. The investigator team, led by researchers at New York University and funded by the National Institutes of Health, reported even higher risk estimates for women, people who self-report Black racial identi
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