Nearly half of dementia cases may be linked to risks you can change

A long-term brain study found that common risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, heart disease, and high blood lipids are strongly associated with brain damage linked to vascular dementia. The research involved analysis of multiple health factors and their impact on brain changes. According to the findings, healthier lifestyle choices could help delay the onset of dementia by reducing several harmful brain changes simultaneously. These results suggest that controlling these risk factors may have a significant preventive effect.