Improved fitness can mean living longer without dementia

Improved fitness can mean living longer without dementia
It’s worth it. Your risk of dementia drops, regardless of how old you are when you begin to exercise — you can even begin right now. Credit: Shutterstock, NTB Scanpix

Staying fit or improving fitness over time should be a goal for anyone who wants to reduce the likelihood of getting dementia.

“It is important to say that it is never too late to begin exercising. The average participant in our study was around 60 years old at baseline, and improvement in was strongly linked to lower risk. Those who had poor fitness in the 1980s but improved it within the next decade could expect to live two years longer without dementia,” says Atefe Tari of the Cardiac Exercise…

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