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Review authors emphasized the need for a more comprehensive approach to dementia management.

What is a safe, effective, and inexpensive way to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and dementia? What we eat is a key part of the answer. For one thing, doctors can suggest an appropriate diet to motivated patients, or to those who prefer a non-drug approach.

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Physical activity of any level before and after a diagnosis of dementia was associated with at least a 20% lower risk for all-cause mortality across dementia subtypes.

The EMA recommendation excludes from treatment adults who are homozygous for the ApoE ε4 gene, a decision that the US Alzheimer's Association does not support, said the president/CEO.

Michigan Medicine researchers found that at all age levels, women with known/suspected OSA were more likely than men to be diagnosed with dementia.