Dementia study finds almost 40% of cases could be avoided
(up to two-thirds of people with dementia never receive a diagnosis)
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Large numbers of people would be spared the agony of dementia if depression and diabetes were banished and people ate more fruit and vegetables and spent longer in education, doctors claim today.
Public health initiatives aimed at achieving those results could mean that almost 40% of those who are expected to be affected by the condition in the future avoid it, they say.
A team of British and French researchers has calculated that increasing the involvement of people of all ages in education, especially literacy, would on its own bring about an 18% drop in the number of expected new cases of the disease over the next seven years.
In addition, eliminating depression and diabetes, and improving the general intake of fruit and vegetables, would lead to a further 21% fewer people succumbing to the condition, according to the co-authors, who include Craig Ritchie, a consultant psychiatrist at St Mary's hospital in London.
Some 825,000 people already have dementia in Britain and numbers are expected to exceed 1 million by 2015, given the ageing population and other factors such as rising obesity.
"Reduction in the incidence of dementia over the next seven years would be maximised by the elimination of diabetes and possibly depression. Increasing crystallised intelligence and consumption of fruit and vegetables also seem to have a potentially high impact," the researchers write in the British Medical Journal today. Read more: guardian.co.uk
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