Alzheimer's cases cut in half by leading healthy lifestyle
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Half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes such as exercise, eating healthily and not smoking, claim researchers.
They say hundreds of thousands of patients could potentially avoid the devastating illness by simply changing bad habits.
Around 820,000 people in Briton suffer from dementia, of whom half have Alzheimer’s, and this is expected to rise to a million within the next ten years.
For the first time, scientists have calculated the extent to which certain lifestyle traits – including lack of exercise, smoking and obesity – all contribute to the disease.
Researchers found that in the Western world, an inactive ‘couch potato’ lifestyle was the most important possible cause.
Smoking, obesity in middle-age, high blood pressure and diabetes all increased the risk. Together, the modifiable risk factors contributed to 50 per cent of Alzheimer’s cases worldwide.
The study, published in the journal Lancet Neurology, found that not going to secondary school also made developing the disease more likely. Continue to read: dailymail.co.uk
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