Dementia, dementia's risk factors and premorbid brain structure are concentrated in disadvantaged areas: National register and birth-cohort geographic analyses

DISCUSSION: Disadvantaged neighborhoods have more residents with dementia, and decades before dementia is diagnosed, residents have more dementia-risk factors and brain-structure antecedents. Whether or not neighborhoods causally influence risk, they may offer scalable opportunities for primary dementia prevention.PMID:38482967 | DOI:10.1002/alz.13727

Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - March 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Aaron Reuben Leah S Richmond-Rakerd Barry Milne Devesh Shah Amber Pearson Sean Hogan David Ireland Ross Keenan Annchen R Knodt Tracy Melzer Richie Poulton Sandhya Ramrakha Ethan T Whitman Ahmad R Hariri Terrie E Moffitt Avshalom Caspi Source Type: research