Thursday, July 28, 2011

How To Reduce The Risk of Alzheimer's...

Here's how various factors increase the chances, by percentage, of developing Alzheimer's:

  • Physical inactivity 21%
  • Depression 15%
  • Smoking 11%
  • Midlife hypertension 8%
  • Midlife obesity 7%
  • Low education 7%
  • Diabetes 3%


Source: Deborah Barnes and Kristine Yaffe, University of California, San Francisco

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