API Staff
Nov 26, 2022
The main risk factors for the disease are a lack of exercise, smoking, depression and poor education. This comes from a BBC News Health report, published in July 2014.
 A Cambridge team analyzed population-based date to work out the main seven risk factors for this disease. These are:
 Diabetes
Mid-life hypertension
Mid-life obesity
Physical inactivity
Depression
Smoking
Low education attainment
 They worked out that a third of these cases could be linked to lifestyle factors that could be modified.
Simply tackling physical inactivity, for example will reduce levels of obesity, hypertension and diabetes and prevent some people from developing dementia.
 Current estimates suggest that more than 106 million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer’s by 2050-more than three times the number affected in 2010.