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If cancer, heart attacks or strokes do not motivate you enough to quit smoking, how about the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? New research by Kaiser Permanente in California and the University of Eastern Finland has established a firm link between smoking and the onset of dementia in your senior years. Middle aged men and women who were at least 50 years old at the start of the study were followed for 20 years.

The results: one in four study participants were diagnosed with dementia. A quarter of these people were found to have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. But vascular dementia, where the brain is impaired by damage to the blood vessels, was responsible for several hundred more of the diagnoses in the study.

Since smoking is a major risk factor for stroke, it is possible that smoking contributes to vascular dementia in the same way by narrowing blood vessels and depriving brain cells of oxygen.

People who smoke two packs of cigarettes a day during middle age face a 157% increased chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease and a 172% greater risk of developing vascular dementia compared to nonsmokers. Continue to read: washingtontimes.com

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