Studies have found that reducing frailty can reduce the incidence of dementia

According to a large-scale new study, reducing the frailty of the elderly may be an effective strategy to prevent dementia

The study, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, found that weakness is an important risk factor for dementia, even for people with a high genetic risk of dementia.

International research teams from Dalhousie University in Canada, Nova Scotia Health Center, and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom studied the data of more than 196,000 adults over 60 years of age in the British biobank

"We are seeing more and more evidence that taking meaningful actions in life can significantly reduce the risk of dementia," said lead author Dr.

During the 10-year study at the British Biobank, 1762 participants were diagnosed with dementia through hospitalization records-these people were more likely to have a high degree of frailty before the diagnosis than those who did not have dementia

When researchers examined the effects of genetic risk in people with varying degrees of frailty, the importance of preventing or reducing frailty was emphasized

Even among those with the highest genetic risk of dementia, the researchers found that healthy people have the lowest risk of dementia, while people with poor health have the highest risk of dementia, the latter being measured as high frailty

Compared with the less vulnerable study participants, the more vulnerable study participants had a 2.

The study identified ways to reduce the risk of dementia

"The risk of dementia reflects genetic, neuropathological, life>

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