Poor heart health increases dementia risk

How heart health impacts dementia riskAnalysis of the health status of U.S. adults ages 65 and older indicates that 2.7 million folks are living with vascular dementia (impaired supply of blood to the brain, often caused by mini-strokes) or mixed dementia (vascular causes plus Alzheimer’s, Lewy Body or frontotemporal dementia). But only around 800,000 folks have been d...

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