Metabolic syndrome was tied to a 24% higher risk of young-onset dementia in a population-based cohort study. Risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's also rose in younger people with metabolic ...

A major new study suggests that maintaining good vascular health could substantially reduce dementia risk before age 80. Researchers followed more than 12,000 participants for 33 years and found that ...

Dementia before age 80 is potentially preventable through early intervention on common vascular risk factors, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Findings ...

Dementia is a growing global public health challenge, with no cure currently available. A recent study found that people with a genetically higher BMI had a substantially increased risk of ...

The factors that raise the risk of heart disease and stroke can also raise the risk of dementia. When blood vessels are damaged or blocked, it can deprive your brain of vital oxygen and nutrients, and ...

A 25-year observational study of 27,000 adults, a higher-fat cheese and cream diet, showed a link to lower dementia risk. An interesting connection, but not proof.

“Vascular brain injury disproportionately affects individuals who experience socioeconomic disadvantage,” the study authors noted, explaining that this damage has been directly linked to impaired ...

Even though Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 failed in Alzheimer's trial, some researchers are cautiously optimistic that obesity and diabetes drugs may have benefits for people with one of the most common forms ...

High body mass index (BMI) could cause a higher risk of vascular-related dementia (a combination of vascular + unspecified dementia), according to new research from the University of Bristol and ...

Vascular dementia is the second leading cause of dementia. This disease co-occurs with Alzheimer’s disease in the leading cause of dementia, termed “mixed dementia.” There is no drug therapy that ...

A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can ...

Researchers conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study using a Taiwanese claims database to assess the risk for dementia in patients with newly diagnosed retinal vascular occlusion. They ...