Seniors, here’s a recipe for preventing dementia: eat well, exercise and don’t smoke.
The only catch, according to a new study? If you carry genes that leave you vulnerable to the memory-robbing disease, lifestyle might not be enough.
In the study, researchers found that of over 6,300 adults aged 55 and older, those with healthy habits had a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia over the next 15 years. That was true, at least, for people at low or intermediate risk of dementia because of their genes.
Among people who carried high-risk genes, there was no evidence that lifestyle swayed the odds of developing dementia.
The findings, published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature Medicine, support a number of past studies suggesting…
