Reduce frailty to lower dementia, study finds

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Reducing frailty in older adults could be an effective strategy to prevent dementia, according to a largescale new study.

Published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, the study found that was a strong risk factor for dementia, even among people who are at a high for dementia, and that it might be modified through a .

The international team from Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Health in Canada and the University of Exeter in the UK, worked with data from more than 196,000 adults aged over 60 in the UK Biobank. They calculated participants’ genetic risk and used a…

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